Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |
| 2 | The American Stock Exchange has changed its mind and decided not to suspend trading in the Class B and Class C common shares stocks of Wang Laboratories Inc at the close of business on March 31 , as had previously been announced : it says the decision reflects its view that investors will best be served by a continuation of the orderly trading provided by its auction market system , but warns brokers and prospective investors to review Wang 's public disclosures on its reorganisation plan thoroughly before leaping in , and to consider carefully the many uncertainties over the value — if any — of its present classes of common shares outstanding . |
| 3 | He was very angry about the shooting and kept on shouting threats about what he 'd do to Lou Vecchi when he caught up with him . |
| 4 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 5 | These cars already had conduit gear and did not need modification . |
| 6 | Born in 1913 , he was educated at Clifton College and went on to read law at Bristol University . |
| 7 | It started life as a flour mill , had a brief connection with the silk industry and finished up making iron piano frames . |
| 8 | Local press reports stated , however , that President Jorge Serrano Elias had already decided to remove Hurtado , because he had become an embarrassment to his administration and had allegedly misused funds intended to pay Chilean carabineros ( security police ) , contracted by the government to assist in the restructuring and training of the Guatemalan National Police . |
| 9 | He was fascinated by the corset which gave her a youthful figure and set about reproducing it.In 1968 , they invented the Wonderbra which has been a best-seller for more than 20 years . |
| 10 | Omero left the den and went outside to find Minky , who was out exercising in the morning air . |
| 11 | ‘ I had every intention of becoming a pianist or conductor but in a great flash of realisation I decided that I would only ever be a mediocre musician and went off to study drama . ’ |
| 12 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 13 | He was aware of a small noise at his side and looked round to see Detective Inspector Kate Miskin looking , not at the corpse , but at him . |
| 14 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 15 | He picked up a beefburger at one of the stalls in the Tented Village and set off to overtake Bryan Thomson 's match . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly she got narky with this bumptious little turd giving her lectures in infant-theology and set about proving things with a prism . |
| 17 | Horsley passed the test and went off to see Thornton , who was still simmering and had nothing but dire warnings for him . |
| 18 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 19 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 20 | Well in the end she took a stack and went in to see Miss and Miss tried to change the subject , subj |
| 21 | This measure was important , first , because it was the first extension from the field of schooling into that of welfare of the principle that a publicly-financed benefit could be granted to those in need , free both of charge and of the disabilities associated with the Poor Law ; second , it was a step towards recognition that parents were not necessarily culpable for the undernourishment of their children and that , with public support , needy children could be well cared for at home and did not require withdrawal into public or voluntary care . |
| 22 | ‘ Alice ’ was a jolly girl and did not give way to deep depression as another ‘ Army ’ mother had done on finding that baby would not be a Major as her father was . |
| 23 | When they said it was almost a certainty , I made an excuse and nipped out to see Purvis . |
| 24 | He was keen for more business to be taken at full Cabinet level and set about dismantling parts of the Attlee machine . |
| 25 | He celebrated his international debut against New Zealand in Johannesburg in August with a try and went on to face Australia before playing in both Tests against France . |
| 26 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 27 | The trucks eventually swung into the camp 's orbit and moved off to unload stores . |
| 28 | He had found his tent and had already moved w the broch island . |
| 29 | Japan 's post-1868 rulers utilized this nationalistic focus and claimed throughout to exercise power in the name of the emperor . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister told the Head of the Civil Service ( who was still nominally in charge of the Cabinet Office , too , to avoid a conflict of status between Brook and General Sir Hastings Ismay , who had been Military Secretary to the Cabinet throughout the war and did not leave Whitehall till 1947 ) what he wanted as the ingredients of reform : |