Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 2 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 3 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
| 4 | He adamantly denied sending the other knives . |
| 5 | He soon got to know the other joggers of the district . |
| 6 | The notion that won through involved stopping the American companies ' strong-arm booking tactics and reserving a space in the domestic market for British films by requiring that exhibitors and distributors handle a proportion of domestic product . |
| 7 | Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories . |
| 8 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 9 | ‘ I had developed a penchant for Southern Comfort over the years and when not running I soon began to surpass the 20 units of alcohol per week ‘ allowed ’ by the experts if you do n't wish to become addicted . |
| 10 | With you I just wanted to savour the initial stages , step by step , to enjoy just being with you , whatever we were doing Besides , ’ he added very softly , his fingers stroking the back of her hand , ‘ you 're not frigid , my lovely . |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to check the ecclesiastical forms before I approached Lord Dersingham , ’ said the Inspector . |
| 12 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 13 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 14 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 15 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 16 | This quickened the growth of an urban proletariat in the mid-nineteenth century , which gradually came to develop the collective organisations ( unions and political parties ) necessary to struggle against exploitation . |
| 17 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 18 | But they quickly learned to avoid the aposematic ones and by the end of the experiment had eaten more of the inconspicuous variety |
| 19 | Nonetheless , leading Sussex Catholics , including John Gage of Firle and Richard Shelley of Warninghurst were imprisoned in 1580 for recusancy ; they still continued to pay the heavy taxes and fines demanded of them . |
| 20 | I always wanted to do the heavy parts . |
| 21 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
| 22 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 23 | Age barriers also served to structure the young adults ' experience of the labour market . |
| 24 | Ironically , Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln . |
| 25 | There was no one in sight so we carefully started to collect the ripest ones . |
| 26 | The refinements also had to cover the new forms of broadcasting . |
| 27 | The charter also attempted to curb the sharp practices of those courtiers who took commission from both seller and buyer . |
| 28 | They also tended to pulp the offending books . |
| 29 | Peng Yu-wei still held his staff , but with his other hand he now sought to draw the two ends of the torn silk together . |
| 30 | Science and technology all too often seemed to overtake the wildest fantasies of Utopian thinkers , plagues of infectious diseases were conquered , people flew not only into air but out into space and landed on the moon ; instant communications brought a " global village " and so on , yet all this progress of science and technology did not bring Utopia . |