Example sentences of "[noun prp] wound up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are any other suggestions There were none , and it being obvious who would have to head the subscribers , Richard wound up the meeting by reading aloud a letter from Willis , delivered by way of Bluebird , in which , addressing them all as shipmates , he sent them all a squeeze of the hand and God bless . |
| 2 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 3 | Palmerston wound up the debate with a forthright speech , which hardly seems to justify Scott 's later remark that it contained ‘ a quantity of poor buffoonery which only Lord P. 's age permits ’ . |
| 4 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 5 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 6 | John wound up the toy car so ( that ) it would go . |
| 7 | John wound up the toy car so it went . |
| 8 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 9 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 10 | In the sentence completion task , the child was asked to complete a sentence fragment which described the action and which ended in because or so ( John wound up the car because/so … |