Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I was ready ( if it became necessary ) to defend the party , the bear had got fed up waiting , had sat down on its backside and was yawning . |
| 2 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 3 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 4 | The meeting took place after GATT negotiating groups in Geneva had failed to draw up draft agreements by Nov. 1 , a target set in October by GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel [ see p. 38555 ] . |
| 5 | When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act , he at last did something . |
| 6 | This so incensed William Courtenay , the Bishop of London , that he summoned John Wycliffe , whom Gaunt had used to stir up public opinion against Wykeham , to St Paul 's to answer for his erroneous teachings . |
| 7 | The original auteur theory sought to explain how a director could make a distinctive body of work within a filmmaking system , the Hollywood studios , whose factory-like production processes seemed designed to crush out individuality . |
| 8 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
| 9 | The children had finished laying out prosciutto and cheese and hard-boiled eggs . |
| 10 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 11 | The French authorities had resisted pushing up interest rates despite the franc 's growing weakness in the European monetary system ( EMS ) exchange rate mechanism . |
| 12 | By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation . |
| 13 | The NLD had won an overwhelming election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , following which the junta had refused to hand over power and had instead initiated a strategy of undermining the party . |