Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 2 | The school librarian , Mr Les Rae , was approached by MEP in December 1985 and asked to pilot the EDLIB Software which had been developed locally . |
| 3 | When he was handed the official document making Sati illegal in December 1829 , he left the preaching to another and hurried to translate the order into Bengali . |
| 4 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 5 | The program structure was quite simple and served to prove the merits of such a configuration . |
| 6 | RICHARD PRINCE 'S series of re-photographed Marlboro cowboy ads are finely printed , enlarged and cropped to lose the logo . |
| 7 | For a party , a layer cake can be iced and decorated to fit the occasion , or according to your political persuasion . |
| 8 | The following morning he brought the two black bulls out of the stable and went to start the ploughing . |
| 9 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 10 | He said the figure included people who no longer needed treatment , those who had gone private and failed to inform the health authority , and those who were reassessed . |
| 11 | I 've had all that and lived to tell the tale . |
| 12 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 13 | Erm works , bridges , B E S subjects , as John rightly said , we missed out erm one or two of these and tended to ignore the things that were under works , bridges and B E S. |
| 14 | I realized he was feeling ill and ran to fetch the rum . |
| 15 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 16 | He said Muslim civilians could be evacuated or were free to stay in the enclave and Serb forces would allow the sick and wounded to leave the area . |
| 17 | And I was thrilled and honoured to get the chance to help launch this magazine . |
| 18 | She found the beating heat oppressive and wanted to ponder the implications of what Christine had just said . |
| 19 | In order to make available a single comprehensive Report covering the English curriculum for the whole period of compulsory schooling , we have included in this Report material from our first Report — revised and extended to reflect the needs of the secondary curriculum or to present our arguments more clearly . |
| 20 | the checking procedures were inadequate and failed to reveal the design deficiency . |
| 21 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 22 | Montgomerie hit a 3-wood to the 200-yard fourth and failed to reach the target . |
| 23 | Jazz was streamlined and beautiful and started to attract the girls ; he was the purest athlete of them all , but the more fluent he became at running and swimming , the more he lost confidence with the riding . |
| 24 | Black in turn , after substantially advancing the project , parted with it to Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd and continued to oversee the project management for the current owners . |
| 25 | EC Foreign Ministers met in The Hague on Sept. 3 and decided to hold the peace conference proposed on Aug. 27 as early as Sept. 7 . |
| 26 | Pamela also appeared angry and seemed to wish the therapist to speak for her , which the therapist resisted . |
| 27 | Eventually he managed to sit in a chair unaided and began to attend the hospital school , where he operated a computer with a mouth-held drumstick . |
| 28 | France , in an early state of development , were unable to exert any degree of authority up front and had to spin the ball wide just to survive . |
| 29 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 30 | ‘ Once again I bought the suite first and decided to decorate the room around it , this time taking birds and blue as my themes . ’ |