Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tokyo and Paris finance ministries have stepped in to push through changes . |
| 2 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 3 | Ivy had gone on to ask about me : ‘ I believe he is in rather low spirits . |
| 4 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 5 | Over 300 amateur golfers from across the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed up to play in next weekend 's Bass-sponsored Heart of Down tournament over the Spa , Downpatrick and Ardglass courses . |
| 6 | An obvious ( if possibly fatuous ) answer is that , rather than wasting money on potentially unwanted presents , people have given cash , which the recipients have rushed out to spend on reduced-price merchandise . |
| 7 | UCAN said Amnesty has written back to ask for further details . |
| 8 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 9 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 10 | Nothing in the South Ronaldsay community would approach normality for a very long time , and most people from the village and the surrounding community had turned out to discover for themselves what was happening , and then to lend their support to the stricken families . |
| 11 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 12 | Cos Grant 's gone off to play with his computer for a few minutes . |
| 13 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |
| 14 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 15 | The windows to either side had been thrown wide as well , and the ends of the tattered old curtains had blown out to hang over the sills . |
| 16 | They had spent another fifteen minutes with Leeming before the doctor had come in to check on his patient . |
| 17 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |
| 18 | The army of herders and small farmers that once destroyed wild dogs as a question of principle has gone off to work at FIAT . |
| 19 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 20 | The stopper was missing and the brandy had trickled out to soak into the sisal matting which covered the floor . |
| 21 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 22 | Dynamite on a long fuse Myles Palmer talks to singer , Brenda Lee , returning to Scotland on tour , and celebrating 33 years in the music business ‘ I know what entertainers have gone through to get to that point on the stage , to put the performance on for you . |
| 23 | Club bosses are on their toes and a string of new clubs have sprung up to cater for kinky lonely-heart foot fetishists who recently won respectability after a couple of celebrated court cases . |
| 24 | Charlie had stopped by to speak to Josie as he 'd said he would , but Lucy had n't been present at the time . |
| 25 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 26 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |