Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 2 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 3 | The budget proposed selling off an estimated US$1,300 million worth of state-run enterprises ; expanding stock and bond markets ; and rationalizing the tax structure , with the reduction of the top tax rate from 62 to 52 per cent , and further projected cuts the following year . |
| 4 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 5 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 6 | On their way to the Hotel Colombi , their shoulders stooped to ward off the falling snow , Horowitz paused when he saw a car hire firm which was still open . |
| 7 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 8 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 9 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 10 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 11 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 12 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 13 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 14 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 15 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 16 | Angelica now knew why Alina had disappeared from the terrace so promptly on the day that Walter Hardy had hooked out the dead dog . |
| 17 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 18 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 19 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 20 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 21 | Ken had brought in an old army chum who was now in the catering business , to handle the more convivial aspects of the occasion . |
| 22 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 23 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 24 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 25 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 26 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
| 27 | Gale-force winds helped to break up the 40-km oil slick , reducing the impact of what was initially reported as a massive environmental disaster , although oil continued to seep out of the sunken vessel . |
| 28 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 29 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 30 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |