Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory . |
| 2 | We have raised many questions about the particular package of policies , recommendations , messages and specifications through which the Authority sought to implement its vision of primary education . |
| 3 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 4 | Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week . |
| 5 | He also promised to continue his programme of political and economic restructuring , which included the streamlining of the public service and the sale of government assets and of a selected number of state-owned companies . |
| 6 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 7 | I tried to concentrate my attention on one face . |
| 8 | Generally , if Sherman tried to lead his teacher towards this area , she would refuse to allow him to go . |
| 9 | He had a big love affair with France and tried to buy his way into political circles . ’ |
| 10 | When they stopped pulling my clothes off that 's when I packed up singing . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Leonard was to learn much from the Pennsylvanian , who helped to inspire his interest in Eastern thought , not least through his translations of the Chinese poet Li Po . |
| 12 | Ian Harvey , BTG 's chief executive , said the company hoped to exploit more technology from America and Europe , but he promised to strengthen its service to British academic researchers . |
| 13 | Martin spat out the toothpaste and watched the cock as he bent to rinse his mouth in running water . |
| 14 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 15 | For the hundredth time he turned over , rearranged his pillows , tried to put his brain into neutral , think of nothing . |
| 16 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |
| 17 | Michael Wilson ( hitherto Finance Minister ) took on a new " super-ministry " with a brief to increase Canada 's competitiveness in the world market ; his successor at Finance , Donald Mazankowski ( hitherto Agriculture Minister ) promised to retain his policy of strict limits on federal spending . |
| 18 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 19 | The Foreign Office and the Hong Kong government tried to camouflage their retreat with windy evasion , talking piously of the need to create ‘ convergence ’ between what Hong Kong wanted for its future , and what China was prepared to permit . |
| 20 | The dancing was held outside , in the open air behind the pavilion , a band playing hot jazz as Rachel and Damian led the dancing by the gleam of the swimming-pool , and the rhythm of their bodies as they moved blazed their desire for each other to the watching guests . |
| 21 | In our first Report on the primary stages we included an early chapter which tried to summarise our views with simple eloquence . |
| 22 | She tried to clear her mind of any fuzziness , as she followed Mary outside towards the other motor home which was used as an office and for corporate hospitality . |
| 23 | This second great spurt of legislation consolidated Roosevelt 's reputation as a reformer and helped to ensure his re-election in 1936 . |
| 24 | She arched her back , tried to stretch her neck above assorted flesh and hair and smell . |
| 25 | I caught , I caught took my hand to those cats . |
| 26 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 27 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 28 | A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 29 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 30 | She collapsed on the chesterfield and tried to bury her face in one of the stony little cushions that decorated it . |