Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 2 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 3 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 4 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 5 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 6 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 7 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 8 | A number of dogs found poisoned on the shores of a small highland lochs may indicate that Scotland 's large deepwater lakes have been affected by phosphate and nitrate pollution . |
| 9 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 10 | They rotted quietly , like the dropped fruit you found hidden under the leaves of the tomato plants . |
| 11 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 13 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 14 | If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them . |
| 15 | He promised to help with the preparations for the party ! ’ |
| 16 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 17 | Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital . |
| 18 | Determinedly Isabel tried to shut off the thoughts of Dameta , of home and family . |
| 19 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |
| 20 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 21 | He had partly explained why he needed her help , how it involved complying with the terms of his uncle 's will , although he had n't admitted yet why he needed the money so desperately . |
| 22 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 23 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 24 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 25 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 26 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 27 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 28 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 29 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |
| 30 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |