Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 2 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 3 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 4 | In his study of Portuguese and English versions of Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 : 6 ) found that abandoning the thematic organization of the source language , in this case Portuguese , ‘ often gives a perfectly acceptable English text ’ . |
| 5 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 6 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 7 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 8 | The son of King George III , as Prince Regent , was renowned as a connoisseur of elegant living and of art treasures , also architecture and was the patron of the architect , John Nash , who designed and built the famous Regent Street crescent in London 's West End , and other developments around Regents Park , also the equally famous Brighton Pavilion . |
| 9 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 10 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |
| 11 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 12 | Corbett rose and gulped the cool night air . |
| 13 | It is a happy custom of this House that , on this occasion , the Leader of the Opposition congratulates those hon. Members who moved and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 14 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 15 | They stopped and examined the half-inch gap between Armstrong and the pink Zephyr . |
| 16 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 17 | Harsh treatment by the Romans over the next two years transformed the refugees into a people fighting for survival , and in 378 they defeated and killed the Roman Emperor , Valens , at the battle of Adrianople . |
| 18 | On 26 August he abdicated and recognised the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . |
| 19 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 20 | Thus two developments could threaten this society of thrifty peasants , most of whom could read and write : the division of holdings — a process that custom prevented in the Basque Provinces — and an assault on the commons that created and sustained the municipal community and the egalitarian society . |
| 21 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 22 | I join the hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) in paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet , South ( Mr. Aitken ) , who proposed and seconded the Loyal Address . |
| 23 | Thus the dark matter would be spread around in a way that mimicked but exaggerated the initial fluctuations . |
| 24 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 25 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 26 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 27 | He believed that combining the selective use of headhunters with sound internal management development was the most effective way to establish a management team . |
| 28 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |
| 29 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |
| 30 | Then helped by the last two , he unlashed and lifted the inflatable dinghy overboard from the cabin top , making it fast fore and aft . |