Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 3 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 4 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 5 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 6 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 7 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 8 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 9 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 10 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 11 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 12 | THIEVES tried to break into a pensioners ' community centre just hours before a tombola to replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 13 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 14 | Frantically crossing himself over and over again , he fled screaming towards the grooms ' quarter as fast as his fat legs would carry him . |
| 15 | The Renault lorry 's trailer became wedged under the bridge 's archway and a crane was brought to the scene to pull the vehicle free . |
| 16 | The process of canonization , which in early times had been very informal and by acclamation , became regulated under the Church 's supervision and Innocent stressed that only the pope had the authority to declare a saint , " for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and the confusion of heresy " , as he said . |
| 17 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 18 | He 'd heard about the jail 's reputation for handling violent and dangerous offenders . |
| 19 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 20 | On top of the thin dress she wore a brightly coloured , predominantly red , Chinese padded jacket ; it seemed to sparkle in the room 's dim lights . |
| 21 | A standard form of agreement is set out in Appendix I. The essential elements of a confidentiality agreement are an acknowledgment by the purchaser that : ( a ) the existence of the negotiations and all information received relating to the vendor 's business is confidential ; ( b ) the purchaser will maintain the confidentiality and ensure that all persons receiving the information maintain the confidentiality ; ( c ) the purchaser will only use information for assessing its acquisition of the business and for no other purpose ; ( d ) the purchaser will return all the information and either return or destroy all copies if the transaction does not complete . |
| 22 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 23 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 24 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 26 | The little white blossom he 'd seen on the road 's surface was stuck to the boy 's sandshoe ; it was n't a flower , it was a little paper charity flag for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the sort you secured to your lapel with a pin . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 28 | Even among those best versed in Marxist theory , workers came to predominate as the party 's ‘ underground university ’ turned out hundreds of ‘ worker- intelligenty ’ . |
| 29 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 30 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |