Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting in 1967 , we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers , but with little success . |
| 2 | But he revealed today he 'd never given up hope of signing the defender turned striker despite the breakdown of the original negotiations two months ago . |
| 3 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 4 | and I said would you integrate so it did n't stand out sort of too obviously four X cubed minus X times X squared . |
| 5 | In fact , the very first paragraph of the Brazzaville Conference report had expressly ruled out self-determination as a possibility , and during the RPF years de Gaulle had made fairly explicit statements in favour of preserving the empire . |
| 6 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 7 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 8 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 9 | By a notice of appeal dated 29 November 1991 the debtor appealed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order because she had not carried on business in England or Wales within three years prior to the presentation of the petition . |
| 10 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 11 | Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies . |
| 12 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 13 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 14 | Vranitzky , who had previously ruled out co-operation with Haider 's FPÖ , began negotiations on Oct. 16 to renew the " grand coalition " of the SPÖ and the ÖVP for a further term . |
| 15 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |