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 | 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 . |
| 4 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |