Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 2 | Pulling it over to frighten it , he failed to jump clear and the pony fell on him , smashing his thigh . |
| 3 | The example of an infant 's fear of strangers shows , as we move from the detailed anatomy of behaviour to the rich , ambiguous concepts we use to make sense of everyday social intercourse , that the particular acts referred to matter less than the way they are organised , just as our interest in houses , rarely focuses on mud or wood or bricks . |
| 4 | Catholic priests came to the Acadians from New France , and tried to make sure that the Acadians would not become reconciled to British rule . |
| 5 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 6 | He 'd gone short and the trouble was — she pegged his flannel pyjamas to the frame — that he did n't seem to care . |
| 7 | On the contrary ; he seemed to get better as the game progressed , winning tackles as if to order , losing little in the air . |
| 8 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 9 | I got to walk careful cos the pavements are so slippy . |
| 10 | Lord Wilberforce sought to rebut this but the request clearly , in the minds of some , showed that the court was not independent or impartial . |
| 11 | ‘ Only he forgot to make sure that the gnomes kept out of range . |
| 12 | He failed to do this and a thief ( third party ) entered the house and stole property belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | The strain this imposed became unbearable as the gap widened . |
| 14 | In 1739 , for example , when Lord Panmure held the Angus parliamentary seat , it began to appear likely that the Earl of Strathmore was contemplating a challenge to Panmure 's position in the county . |
| 15 | The tension increased on Oct. 21 when Mulayem Singh Yadav , Janata Dal Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh , threatened to arrest Advani if the Rath Yatra crossed from Bihar into Uttar Pradesh . |
| 16 | " And after a time , " went on Dandelion , " after a time the grass began to grow thin and the rabbits wandered everywhere , multiplying and eating as they went . |
| 17 | It began to seem impossible that the rock , huge as it was , could contain this labyrinth they were treading . |
| 18 | But they had a tiring game on Sunday , energy reserves began to run low and the tourists hit back with tries from Taewa ( 2 ) , Leota and Kuiti . |
| 19 | Then strangely the sun began to turn black and the sky dark and as she breathed the shadow of his name she felt her legs folding beneath her and in a moment she had fainted . |
| 20 | Scarlet began to feel hotter than the weather merited : she was embarrassed when her husband was offensive to cab drivers , and it was now almost inevitable that he would be . |
| 21 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 22 | As the reorganised schools began to settle and establish themselves it began to become apparent that the curriculum , the vehicle for educational progress , needed to be reorganised also . |
| 23 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 24 | A stolid , red-faced clergyman without wit or humour , he contrived to make any and every subject dull . |
| 25 | The motorist Mr Barnard Buys , who managed to wriggle free before the car exploded , said : ‘ They kicked me and boxed me . |
| 26 | Even though he was gagged , Mr Glenn managed to dial 999 and the call was traced by police back to the brasserie . |
| 27 | Gradually the combined armies in France managed to gain more than a toehold on French soil and started to advance , and our aircrews found themselves flying over more and more territory which was in friendly hands , so therefore the casualty rate in Bomber Command dropped dramatically . |
| 28 | Responses pointing to especially good search work emanated from Grand Metropolitan , Plessey , Kingfisher plc , Cadbury Schweppes , BICC , four companies who preferred to remain anonymous and the majority of the financial services users . |
| 29 | In contrast to all previous postwar elections , where nuclear issues , and a range of post-colonial questions from Suez and South Africa to the Falklands were raised to promote or attack party images , international issues appeared to play little or no role . |
| 30 | ‘ Anna did get better once the boy was there . |