Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 2 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 3 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 4 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 5 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 6 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 7 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 8 | Do n't put baby bouncers on tables or work surfaces and use a harness to keep them strapped in a high chair . |
| 9 | Both the projector and the turntable were powered by the same motor to ensure they ran at the same speed . |
| 10 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 11 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 12 | Festinger and his colleagues wished to study what happened in a religious sect when their prophecy that the world was coming to an end on a particular day turned out to be wrong ( Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 1956 ) . |
| 13 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 14 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |
| 15 | To understand the rage you had to see the age , when art curses and kicks society so much it changes it , you have to realise they arrived in a perfect time-spot . |
| 16 | Secondly , there 's no reason to suppose it happened in a small population . |
| 17 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |
| 18 | The Panel operates outside the financial services legislation in the UK , although some would like to see it brought within the statutory framework . |
| 19 | An attempt by the District Attorney to overturn it resulted in the Supreme Court 's consideration of the case on April 2 . |
| 20 | Whilst the relevance of such information should not be denied , to present it divorced from the Latin American context leads to a seriously distorted picture of Soviet-Latin American relations . |
| 21 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 22 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 23 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 24 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |
| 25 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
| 26 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |
| 27 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
| 28 | With 20 minutes left the goalkeeper had to make what looked like an orthodox clearance , but the ball hit one of his own defenders and Brown 's quick reaction put him in possession . |