Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 2 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
| 3 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 4 | Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these . |
| 5 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 6 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 7 | Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers . |
| 8 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 9 | In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà . |
| 10 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 11 | Erm , the salmon pages set out the proposed strategy to meet those guidelines , and as I say , we 'll pick those up as we move through . |
| 12 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 13 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 14 | They the the leads carried out the proper procedure , what 's laid down for them . |
| 15 | Priscilla Buxton recounted how four MPs brought in the huge rolls of the ladies ' petition of 1833 and ‘ heaved it on to the table among loud laughing and cheers . |
| 16 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 17 | Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them . |
| 18 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 19 | In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 21 | The commotion brought in the new duty officer , a tall and muscular young lieutenant with a sad , world-weary face . |
| 22 | Slow transit constipation can be distinguished from outlet obstruction by the ingestion of a capsule containing 20 shapes followed by an abdominal x ray film taken on the fifth day ; 80% retention of the markers signifies slow colonic transit . |
| 23 | An eager public lapped up the vital evidence . |
| 24 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 25 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 26 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 27 | The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain . |
| 28 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |