Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got ta get into the rocking mood and you |
| 2 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 3 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 4 | ‘ It ranged from going to a new swimming pool with a whirly slide to going to the National Gallery . |
| 5 | The couple were wined and dined before retiring to a plush suite for Valentine 's night . |
| 6 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 7 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 8 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 9 | High on the moorland wilds , ancient travellers told of meeting with a mysterious stranger who would offer them a golden goblet of wine . |
| 10 | This is what came of dealing with the common herd . |
| 11 | Jeff came into teaching via the practical side of art . |
| 12 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 13 | On another occasion , he dissuaded from listening to a hare-brained proposal for a military take-over of the government . |
| 14 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 15 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 16 | My story , A Pair of Yellow Lilies , came from looking at a double-stemmed lily in our conservatory . |
| 17 | Having started along the path of gas-cooled reactors , the nuclear industry stuck with them when it came to looking for an improved model . |
| 18 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 19 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 20 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 21 | Twenty healthy white volunteers acted as controls for the intestinal permeability studies . |
| 22 | Sixteen patients with the irritable bowel syndrome acted as controls for the 1 1 1 In leukocyte and 5 1 Cr red cell studies . |
| 23 | I also want to show how Moore 's genius consisted of moving from a small object , a pre-Columbian sculpture , a piece of rock or a sea shell , towards large-scale sculpture . ’ |
| 24 | The auditory task consisted of listening to a random list of numbers and repeating them as they were presented . |
| 25 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 26 | In a separate section of the statement , France joined in calling on the Libyan government to " prove by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism " . |
| 27 | There they rested before continuing in a slow trickle of delicious sensation to the neck of her blouse . |
| 28 | But with delays in getting the bike to pieces , and in getting it through security , we arrived at boarding after the 15 min deadline and our seats had been given away . |
| 29 | Here it probably happened by sailing into the steep wave resulting in a sudden loss of speed . |
| 30 | As chairman of the Slovak Social Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia 's eastern region , he never tired of fighting for a common state of Czechs and Slovaks . |