Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears . |
| 3 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 4 | They started to work out the answers mentally , but soon resorted to calculators . |
| 5 | Worryingly — given the nature of the inhabitants — the first member of staff sent to check out the facilities never returned . |
| 6 | Penelope Houston had pointed out the dangers early on , in the pages of Sight and Sound : |
| 7 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 8 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 9 | ‘ However , we had to sort out the speakers too … |
| 10 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 11 | Thought it had slipped down the bedclothes somewhere . |
| 12 | RECOVERY teams had to fight back the tears yesterday — after a lorry carrying thousands of pickling onions overturned near Wootton , Oxon . |
| 13 | But Marc had put down the shutters again . |
| 14 | Everyone agreed you had to bring in the nukes eventually . |