Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 3 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 4 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 5 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 6 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 7 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 8 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 9 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 10 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 11 | ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit . |
| 12 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 13 | Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office . |
| 14 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 15 | Rather he asserted and tried to use effectively in the 1760s and 1770s powers which he undoubtedly possessed in theory but which under his predecessors had begun to be whittled away in practice . |
| 16 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 17 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 18 | Pennethorne was called to explain his proposals , and in an appendix to the proceedings , Molesworth said that after considering Inman and Phipps 's report , he ‘ proposed to commence immediately with the Foreign Office ’ . |
| 19 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 20 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 21 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 22 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 23 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 24 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 25 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 27 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 28 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 29 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 30 | Small clients handled roughly from what sounded like a hectic dealing room got turned on by the apparent professionalism of it all , and often allowed themselves to be persuaded into buying almost worthless over the counter ( OTC ) shares . |