Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 32 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 33 | ‘ Very uncomfortable , I expect , ’ said Fenella and went on studying the black stone buildings to see if there was a small , partly hidden door that they might use to get inside . |
| 34 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 35 | Glasgow gangster Frank Murphy changed his name to Frank Earn and went on to win the Scottish Welterweight Boxing Championship , but he was the exception . |
| 36 | Fitted with a Renault engine , it first flew in 1937 and went on to become the standard Soviet primary trainer throughout World War Two . |
| 37 | He won the NIBA singles championship , and went on to become the first Parks player to lift the coveted Irish title since Balmoral 's Alan McMullan in 1987 . |
| 38 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 39 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 40 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 41 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |
| 42 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 43 | She stood on tiptoe and reached up to cover the lower part of his face with her hand . |
| 44 | He walked back along the side of the track and edged down to join the scene-of-crime squad . |
| 45 | After a day or two of piste-aching Jack threw in the towel and headed off to join the cross-country skiers . |
| 46 | The bars were then folded or twisted together and beaten out to form the central element of each face . |
| 47 | Every castle mustered its defences and stood by to repel the normal sharp and brief attack ; for only when they were insolently sure of their supremacy did the Welsh assay a siege . |
| 48 | His biographer , Andrew Yule , wrote an exhaustive account of Puttnam 's career and ended up choosing the same word for the title . |
| 49 | The TNCs control research and production of new seed varieties and , as many studies have argued , the so-called Green Revolution was managed in large part through the TNCs and ended up benefiting the rich farmer and merchant classes , and increasing the poverty of the rural masses . |
| 50 | ‘ After leading last year I then relaxed , partly because I did n't know what to expect , and ended up missing the four-round cut by one shot . ’ |
| 51 | Hopper will probably agree that he — and the movie — were saved by Nicholson who was sent down by Rafelson as a trouble-shooter in the role of executive producer and ended up playing the third man , the part reserved for Rip Torn . |
| 52 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 53 | The new Labour Government who will be elected five weeks tomorrow will immediately sign the social charter and set about getting the social chapter firmly into the treaty itself . |
| 54 | In my opinion , they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits , whoever they are . |
| 55 | Betty was wearing a dressing-gown , a circumstance which served further to upset Lydia , who nevertheless painted her mouth bright red to facilitate her smile and set about connecting the bottled gas to the stove . |
| 56 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 57 | Use the wiring loom fitted to the later IIa These were negative earth and will fit your vehicle As this has a dynamo system replace with an alternator Connect the two A terminal wires to the F terminal wire on the regulator box wiring insulate the other wires and tape up Connect the small terminal wire on the loom to the warning |
| 58 | Stephen gave an absent-minded nod and hurried off to solve the next problem . |
| 59 | The white veins in the pink marble tremble and nod , they sway and stretch out to catch the excited atoms . |
| 60 | Patrick thanked her and sat down facing the second maid , Sarah . |