Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 2 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 3 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 4 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 5 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 6 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 7 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 9 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 10 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 11 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 12 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 13 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 14 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 15 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 16 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 17 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 18 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 19 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 20 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 21 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 22 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 23 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 25 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 26 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 27 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 28 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 29 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 30 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |