Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 2 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 3 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 4 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 6 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 7 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 8 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 9 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 10 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 11 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 12 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 13 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 14 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 15 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 16 | And it was the arrival of one of the men who had denied them victory in the past that helped to spark off the renewed challenge in 1993 . |
| 17 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 18 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 19 | Gale-force winds helped to break up the 40-km oil slick , reducing the impact of what was initially reported as a massive environmental disaster , although oil continued to seep out of the sunken vessel . |
| 20 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 25 | The FA tried to stamp out the professional foul , a euphemism for cheating , at the start of the 1982-83 season . |
| 26 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |
| 27 | Belinda tried to bring out the new artist 's term nonchalantly , but he was n't fooled . |
| 28 | Sir Robin Ibbs was loaned from ICI and asked to sort out the civil service . |
| 29 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 30 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |