Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 2 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 3 | John Goodman , Tom Hanks , Aerosmith , Candice Bergen and Bruce Willis all made the effort to come off like good sports , gamely responding ‘ What ? ’ to Myers ' dopey ‘ Fagssaywhat ’ . |
| 4 | KEYNES ( John Maynard , not Milton ) was a great economist in the 1930s who devised the way to get out of recession . |
| 5 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 6 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 7 | The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen . |
| 8 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |
| 9 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 10 | A BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 11 | But a BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 12 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 13 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 14 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 15 | ‘ You see , Roger , I used the ladder to get out of the church . |
| 16 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |
| 17 | She glared at him , told the children to get on with it — and would Nicco Haberdasheri like to share the joke with the rest of the class ? |
| 18 | From women 's point of view , changes in the occupational structure which gave young women in the twentieth century more opportunity for a career also reduced the need to marry out of pure economic necessity , which in turn increased the importance of companionship within marriage . |
| 19 | These factors , coupled with the abolition of scale charges for conveyancing , caused the lawyers to cast around for alternative sources of income . |
| 20 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 21 | Cinchona used to grow in profusion on the eastern slopes of the Andes but over-cropping caused the trees to die out by the mid 1800s . |
| 22 | A combination of excess speed and harsh steering caused the car to go out of control . |
| 23 | Police are trying to find out what caused the car to go out of control , cross the road and overturn down the steep embankment at just after 1pm . |
| 24 | For its trouble , Foothill received a warrant to purchase up to 300,000 shares of Ultimate common . |
| 25 | FREE-market economics took on a new meaning last week as schools received an invitation to shop around for the cheapest General Certificate of Secondary Education exams . |
| 26 | The audience toe-tapped along with the lively rhythms and welcomed the chance to join in with the cha cha cha number . |
| 27 | We encouraged the viewers to phone in during the programme , or write in afterwards . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom on Dec. 17 ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [ see pp. 37054 ; 37732 ] but reserved the right to opt out of some of its provisions . |
| 29 | Number eight Dave Cook provided excellent support and it was his pass to Steve Glen that allowed the scrum-half to scamper over for the score . |
| 30 | It was Phillips 's 13th minute shot which allowed the Canaries to close in on the leaders , although there was more than a slice of luck about it as the ball hit Nick Henry before bouncing over the stranded Oldham keeper Paul Gerrard . |