Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home . |
| 2 | With pal Andrew Christie , 21 , Paul planned to smash up parked cars with the baseball bat . |
| 3 | Out of season they helped build up local defences by filling sandbags . |
| 4 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 5 | On the other hand the British government was disturbed to find , early in 1955 , that the credibility of the nuclear deterrent in Europe might be weakened as the Americans tried to spell out differing roles for tactical and strategic nuclear weapons in the defence of the West . |
| 6 | She bent to pick up broken shards of china , gritting her teeth as her head protested . |
| 7 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 8 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 9 | The protests involved switching off domestic lights at pre-arranged times , while sounding whistles , pans and household instruments to urge the government to restore full democratic rights . |
| 10 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 11 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 12 | The future of newly-formed UK firm , Goldmine Technologies Ltd , Berkhamstead , Hertfordshire , was hanging in the balance last week , as its Swiss parent , Goldmine Technologies AG , Zug , Switzerland , tried to stump up new sources of venture funding for the group ( UX No 382 ) . |
| 13 | A strong smell of coffee emanating from the basement reminded her that Mrs Crouching , her landlady , was having one of her monthly ‘ evenings ’ — mild social occasions when she and her friends met to talk over important topics of the day . |
| 14 | Even before Saturday Night and Sunday Morning pushed him to the front of young British actors , he 'd turned down post-RADA contracts with Rank and Associated British Pictures Corporation . |
| 15 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 16 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers who met in the Scottish resort of Gleneagles on Oct. 20-21 approved fresh guidelines for " a reduced reliance on nuclear weapons " and agreed to draw up firm plans by December for international peacekeeping operations , first outlined in May and June [ see pp. 38937 ; 38986 ] . |
| 17 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 18 | A company which began serving up hot meals from an industrial unit on the Aycliffe Trading Estate has been taken to task by Sedgefield council . |
| 19 | Marion turned away and began to pile up assorted biscuits in red and green tins , holly-decked and dotted about with fat robins in honour of Christmas . |
| 20 | The rope beside Grant went taut and began to give off creaking noises of friction at the point where it disappeared over the edge of the stone coping , as it took the weight of the climbing man below . |
| 21 | To overcome this America 's intelligence services began to think up other ways of delving right into the heart of Russia and China . |
| 22 | It was this establishment of bishoprics that finally destroyed Saxon identity , for life began to revolve around centralised locations with the bishoprics generating towns , and the ancient semi-nomadic life was eroded . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , as the World Bank and other august proponents of the perpetual increase of global trade never tired of reminding us throughout the 1980s , many First World countries began to step up protectionist measures in that decade . |
| 24 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
| 25 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 26 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The Carter administration favoured phasing out lethal methods of predator control . |
| 28 | He 'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive . |
| 29 | Then in June 1967 , Romania failed to break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the outbreak of the Six Day War . |
| 30 | At Bristol and Liverpool slavers did make up significant proportions of the merchant fleets . |