Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the defenders seemed to get up front from time to time . |
| 2 | The incident has revived memories of the dark days in the sixties when foot and mouth threatened to wipe out millions of pounds worth of beef and dairy cattle . |
| 3 | President Bush explained on Wednesday that he decided to send in thousands of marines to capture General Noriega and restore democracy in Panama , after forces under Noriega 's command killed one unarmed US serviceman , wounded another , arrested and assaulted a third and brutally interrogated his wife , threatening her with sexual abuse . |
| 4 | AFTERMATH : Burned-out cars lie covered in foam after firemen battled to put out thousands of gallons of blazing fuel from the tanker |
| 5 | Post and Telecom 's convincing start to the season had fizzled out due to injury . |
| 6 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 7 | In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House . |
| 8 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 9 | He had to buy off some of Wednesday night 's rebels by promising them that the Maastricht Treaty would not come before the Commons again until after Denmark held another referendum in May . |
| 10 | This was the famous Tessa , who wrote Bob twelve-page letters which he left lying around open on top of his desk . |
| 11 | She then discovered her engineer husband had run up thousands of pounds in debts and had tried to end his life a month before . |
| 12 | Carrie had taken over many of Dolly 's duties at Handley Farm , with two young girls aged ten and eleven to help her in the dairy . |
| 13 | The red death had taken over all in front of him but there were shapes moving towards him . |
| 14 | Sheridan Lorrimore was telling a long-suffering good-natured couple all about his prowess at ice hockey and Xanthe , pouting and put out at having been temporarily deserted by Mrs Young , had ended up next to Giles-the-murderer whose real-life preference , I 'd gathered , was for boys . |
| 15 | There was a paymaster providing ready money to pay natives , and a signals officer controlling the flow of reports back to Australia and the incoming news of airdrops or bombing raids : essential organisation , for even the most independent force needed supplies , and these had to travel over hundreds of miles of mountain tracks before reaching some platoon areas . |
| 16 | The lake itself had dried up thousands of years ago . |
| 17 | I considered calling up one of contacts and declaring my innocence , but decided against it . |