Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pouring water through a shower head or ( clean ) watering can rose also helps to dissipate the chlorine . |
| 2 | We catch remote glimpses of the camaraderie in the Mess of his ‘ family ’ , as he called it , of young officers , many of them ‘ sprigs of nobility ’ whom he found well equipped to withstand the displeasure of senior officers when they were the bearers of unwelcome orders . |
| 3 | The study reported here aimed to describe the experiences of 10 fundholding practices in the Northern region during the first year of the scheme ( 1991–2 ) . |
| 4 | The study reported here decided to use the MRC Needs for Care Assessment ( MRC-NCS ) to measure the needs of residents in a standardized way , with the idea of using the information as a basis for planning interventions . |
| 5 | I used sometimes to have to make an effort to be cheerful , but I have never had to restrain myself from bursting into violence and anger … |
| 6 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 7 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 8 | You 'd better prepare to abandon the platform . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 10 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 11 | He said he 'd only meant to frighten the victim , not kill him . |
| 12 | But nationalism is a treacherous weapon and may rebound on its user and , especially after the failure of the European radical movements in 1848 , the Pan-Germanism and anti-semitism which Vienna adopted only served to stir the embers of Bohemian nationality . |
| 13 | Came in came to shoot the ducks on the island . |
| 14 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 15 | The giant palms lining the road inspected me disinterestedly as I coasted along trying to find the Alcade Apartments . |
| 16 | ‘ So , by the time he had made one broom the floor of the hut was covered in bits of twigs , and he had to use the broom he 'd just made to sweep the floor of his hut clean before he could start making the next broom . |
| 17 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 18 | Came home , she came home with me , she came home with me , and I 'd just learned to play the piano , and I played that , it was , we 'd just come from Guides , you see , and I I was only young . |
| 19 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 20 | She 'd already decided to invent a tummy bug to explain any awkward disappearances she might be forced to make . |
| 21 | Dot realized she 'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink . |
| 22 | But she 'd already started to dissipate the beauty of her voice with various kinds of addiction — narcotics , alcohol and companions who were n't altogether kind to her — and the last ten years of her life ( she died in 1959 ) find the light , drifting delivery of the pre-war years shrivelling into the croak of a haggard ghost . |
| 23 | Marjorie named her Lizzie ( she 'd always intended to call a daughter Lizzie but had produced only sons ! ) and the two forged a strong bond . |
| 24 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 25 | There is a revealing Darwinian relationship between size and weight in regard to herbivores and carnivores ; one which seemed perfectly balanced to keep the ratio in harmony . |
| 26 | She was a beauty and he 'd often wanted to steal a kiss , but had had enough sense not to try . |
| 27 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 28 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 29 | She 'd triumphantly managed to negotiate the traffic to park in Palace Square , then wandered around the shops , glad of her flat tan sandals , with the promise of coffee at one of the shady pavement cafés when she 'd tired herself out . |
| 30 | It is now part of the history of this country that many people came here to try to avoid the holocaust that Nazi Germany became . |