Example sentences of "[vb past] check the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice straightened from her crouch with the five bolts buzzing like bees in her hand , pulled the access plate open and furtively tried to check the space inside the dispenser . |
| 2 | A feather duvet warmed the patient and helped to check the effect of shock . |
| 3 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 4 | He was lying when he said he 'd checked the house . |
| 5 | She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before . |
| 6 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 7 | They forgot to check the oil . |
| 8 | Defries finished checking the suit , and opened the airlock . |
| 9 | I finished checking the leads and cooling pipes . |
| 10 | Not only was Buckinghamshire small , its inadequate internal communications served to check the evolution of a true county town . |
| 11 | The doctor and another younger medic , a small , calm , confident woman , began to check the dressings of the casualties . |
| 12 | home bloody needed checking the lights ! |
| 13 | For the first time Jenking was becoming worried , and he started to check the compass frequently and ordered leadsmen in to the chains to take soundings . |
| 14 | ‘ I needed to check the facts for myself — and have done so . |
| 15 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 16 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 17 | He meant to check the street for signs of the Corsican before he went to bed but he was so tired he forgot . |
| 18 | After finishing his grub he took out a big spanner and proceeded to check the bolts on his plough , he also knocked off the clods of earth in between the blades . |
| 19 | He went to check the door from the laboratory into the narrow side-street . |
| 20 | The King sought to check the overgrowth of the capital by issuing a proclamation to prohibit the building of new homes in London . |
| 21 | Between 1908 and 1913 , while Austria-Hungary sought to check the growth of Serbia , the most ambitious and assertive of the successor states , Russia lent her fellow Slavs diplomatic support . |
| 22 | We had checked the story prior to publication and following the contact from the Princess Royal it was subsequently checked again with our source , who confirms the accuracy of the quotes . |
| 23 | Tony came back 10 days later looking happier , and reported that he had checked the newspapers regularly and had sent off several applications for jobs . |
| 24 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 25 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 26 | This pay policy , for which there had been no attempt to establish wide political support , bore particularly hard on certain groups of relatively weakly organised workers such as nurses , teachers and hospital workers whose case commanded considerable public sympathy , and when the deflationary measures had checked the run on the pound trade union antagonism to the government remained . |
| 27 | He had checked the range of materials available in the library but wanted pupils to do some research in the library for the project . |
| 28 | Zoe and her sister had checked the field carefully for dangerous objects before they began jumping . |
| 29 | He had checked the file of that period and found nothing . |
| 30 | On April 9 the DPK said that Kurdish guerrillas had checked the advance of government troops north of Sulaimaniya . |