Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 2 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 3 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 4 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 5 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 6 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 7 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 8 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 9 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 10 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 11 | I THOUGHT I 'd write this week about wines from unsung corners of the world , and began to round up the usual suspects — Cyprus , Israel , Canada , Belgium . |
| 12 | He began to work out the probable returns from his night 's work . |
| 13 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 14 | People began filling up the empty seats . |
| 15 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 16 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 17 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 18 | As — to many people 's surprise — Russian resistance first held up and then began to turn back the Nazi forces , the Communists , identification with the Soviet Union became their major attraction to tens of thousands of new recruits . |
| 19 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 20 | The defences of Wytschaete were penetrated early in the morning and British troops immediately began to move down the eastern slopes of the ridge . |
| 21 | He was still grinning when he left the centre and as Rachel began clearing up the soiled dressings she strained her ears to hear what was being said in the office . |
| 22 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 23 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 24 | She felt little pain unless she moved , which she tried not to do as she struggled to pull apart the serrated jaws of the trap . |
| 25 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |
| 26 | Though Clyde Vaughan ( 24 points ) , Scott Wilke ( 23 ) and Russ Saunders ( 20 ) were all firing , they struggled to put away the weakened Riders , 89-88 . |
| 27 | Often , this attitude had left him physically the worse for wear , but not mentally , for he managed to give even the vicious beatings a meaning by analysing his reactions and those of the guards without pride , certainly with no feeling of humiliation , nor indeed with bitterness . |
| 28 | At one stage , residents offered to lay down the sleeping policemen themselves , but the request was turned down . |
| 29 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |
| 30 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |