Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 2 | ( There are spiders too : an engineer , inspecting the Lake as it was filling , reported seeing a half-drowned tree covered with what appeared to be black foliage : he paddled alongside , then shot away as fast as his blades could carry him . |
| 3 | Emergency services , fell search and rescue teams and RAF and Royal Navy helicopters were called in after a driver reported seeing a light aircraft flying just feet above his vehicle in the area between Consett and the Derwent Reservoir . |
| 4 | At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years . |
| 5 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 6 | Stella tried to imagine a younger Lily giving Uncle Vernon cause for jealousy . |
| 7 | They claimed that the party was in the grip of militant right-wing extremists , and proposed to form a new party led by Özal . |
| 8 | In his invasion manifesto , William had made no mention of intending the throne for himself , and had avoided any attacks on James , but instead had blamed the King 's evil counsellors , and promised to call a free Parliament to settle the affairs of the Kingdom . |
| 9 | A SCHOOLBOY who tried to rape a young policewoman ended up by being dragged by the hair to the south London station where she was based , an Old Bailey jury was told today . |
| 10 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 11 | One of the pulsar 's original discoverers , Stanislav Djorjovski , reported finding a brighter star coinciding with the pulsar last November . |
| 12 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 13 | He later helped establish a utopian community called New Harmony in America and even became converted to spiritualism , writing some posthumous dramas by Shakespeare . |
| 14 | Between 1974 and 1976 the Labour government tried to operate a counter-cyclical policy to keep full employment in the face of the first world depression for forty years . |
| 15 | The decision came after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan 's nuclear programme was being designed exclusively for peaceful purposes . |
| 16 | In October 1990 the USA had halted all economic and military aid to Pakistan after Congress failed to receive a presidential certification testifying that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 17 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 18 | One respect in which the war came to acquire an international dimension concerned its impact on shipping . |
| 19 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 20 | In pursuing his dream of nuclear powered aircraft Tank came to know an Austrian refugee named Richter who had been a nuclear physicist in Hitler 's Germany and was another of the new generation of South Americans . |
| 21 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 22 | Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom . |
| 23 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 24 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 25 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 26 | Ever since she 'd seen a real arachnid close up she shuddered just at the word . |
| 27 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 28 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
| 29 | Here , I heard you 'd got a young lady stayin' with yer . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |