Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 2 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 3 | The Award is one of four made annually to encourage the local community to mark outstanding achievements . |
| 4 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 5 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 6 | The first category , compare and contrast positive and negatives , involves a comparison between positive and negative adjectives describing the person used together to form the final opinion ; for example , ‘ [ I ] weighed all good points against all bad points ’ or ‘ as far as I was able to tell , every person was described by three positive/favourable adjectives and three negative/unfavourable ones … just as an impression was formed it was negated by the 5th or 6th words , giving it a cancelling out effect . |
| 7 | She tried fiercely to control the sudden rush of pleasure that hearing his voice again so soon gave her . |
| 8 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 9 | Bragg bent down to lift the slight body . |
| 10 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |
| 11 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 12 | The Washington Post of July 16 reported that " before last month 's elections , it was Slovak nationalist politicians who seemed determined to end the federation , while Czech leaders tried doggedly to preserve the joint state " . |
| 13 | The Washington Post of July 16 reported that " before last month 's elections , it was Slovak nationalist politicians who seemed determined to end the federation , while Czech leaders tried doggedly to preserve the joint state " . |
| 14 | She pretended not to notice the mocking drawl behind his words and instead concentrated on the scenery . |
| 15 | Sally held her breath as Louise fastened the multitude of little hooks and eyes and tried not to notice the little roll of fat that squeezed out above and below it . |
| 16 | Benny tried not to feel the rough wool of the jumper at her neck . |
| 17 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
| 18 | In fact there had not been one unified element to the train which followed Artai 's progress but several , and those which were the designated efforts of individual districts of the city , or of the guilds , now moved away to become the driving force behind a carnival which ruled every street . |
| 19 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 20 | My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it . |
| 21 | Changes in the question wording used also make the meaningful interpretation of time series health data problematic . |
| 22 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 23 | Backspace allows correction , carriage return or line feed terminates the process , while a decimal digit character is translated and the decimal number built up using the elementary formula |
| 24 | Amy bounced back to win the junior championship with a record number of points ( 239.05 ) . |
| 25 | One sign of the times was that Lord Young of Dartington , a founder member of the SDP in 1981 , moved back to rejoin the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Her eyes flickered sideways to read the digital cost display ’ … . m afraid your budget … an no longer . |
| 27 | After that , Emmie tried hard to keep the big kitchen clean ; Marjorie could hardly go poking round the rest of the house to see what it looked like . |
| 28 | Further north along Ermine Street , another road branched northwards to follow the proposed alignment of King Street skirting the fen edge . |
| 29 | The host of darkness let out a howl of anguish and charged forward to overwhelm the lone Elf warrior and the Elf army raced to meet them . |
| 30 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |