Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 2 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 3 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 4 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 5 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 6 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 7 | Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities . |
| 8 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 9 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 10 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 11 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 12 | But the great popularity of that sort of book in the 1920s and 1930s had another effect besides producing the series of direct variants that led eventually to the crime novel . |
| 13 | In what amounted to a fledgling display of player-power and a dress rehearsal for the player 's campaign to secure greater freedom of contract , the Scots players argued bitterly with the Chelsea board . |
| 14 | I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’ |
| 15 | We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow . |
| 16 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 17 | Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields . |
| 18 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 19 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 20 | The distinctive aroma of chocolate and liqueurs will entice you to view the delectable selection of hand made quality chocolates and fudge made daily at the village confectionery . |
| 21 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |
| 22 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 23 | There is a statutory procedure laid down for the consultation process . |
| 24 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 25 | In December 1630 he was silenced by William Laud [ q.v. ] for not catechizing according to the form laid down in the Prayer Book , and for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 27 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 28 | The European Community has agreed to ban the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by June 1997 — three years ahead of the deadline laid down in the Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer [ see ED no. 35/36 ] . |
| 29 | Unless extra resources and training are made available , the ESO procedure laid down in the Children Act 1989 may not herald a new emphasis on the causes of truancy . |
| 30 | Nor will it will get the green light until the United Nations is satisfied that Iraq has fulfilled all the conditions laid down in the Security Council resolutions during the hostilities . |