Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 3 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 4 | The goal came as City tried to struggle through with 10 men while Rick Holden was having four stitches in a mouth wound after colliding with team-mate Terry Phelan . |
| 5 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 6 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 7 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 8 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 9 | Every night , he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs , to restaurants and to major pop concerts . |
| 10 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 11 | The five Kenny children came crowding round like little goblins , dirty and ragged , but squealing happily . |
| 12 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 13 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 14 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 15 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 16 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 17 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 18 | RCN said the SAM pilot had to stop so suddenly that luggage came flying out of overhead compartments . |
| 19 | Last night 's mess and a more tidy visit this afternoon when he came to see whether we 'd stocked up with illegal drugs on our trip to Nice . ’ |
| 20 | In the second half Oxford eased off just for a bit , but when Luton opened fire United hit back with all guns blazing . |
| 21 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 22 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 23 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 24 | Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time . |
| 25 | However , Mrs Thompson vowed to fight on for other landlords even if time ran out for she and her husband . |
| 26 | With Taylor continuing absent from the talks " for security reasons " , debate became bogged down in procedural squabbles and by the NPFL delegation 's complaint that the front was under-represented at the conference . |
| 27 | But North Korea threatened to hit back against any sanctions . |
| 28 | In 1981 IBM began using up to 8 tonnes of cyanide a week to extract silver ore from waste tips at the mine , having invested $1.4 million in extraction equipment . |
| 29 | By the mid-Eighties we were singing in English too , and we began to catch on in English-speaking countries . |
| 30 | This proved extremely successful and after several open days farmers began signing up in increasing numbers . |