Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a mass meeting today members of NALGO agreed to work normally until the results of that meeting , on April 17 , are known . |
| 2 | She tried to sit up but a wave of nausea engulfed her and , with a sob , she fell back on her pillow . |
| 3 | A young man in a smartly hideous jacket tried to come out while the kids were trying to go in . |
| 4 | I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in . |
| 5 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 6 | The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area . |
| 7 | ‘ We tried to get back but the waves were getting bigger . |
| 8 | It was probably a Barbarian female who tried to make out that a woman 's work is never done . |
| 9 | He could sense that there was no harm in the Sweeper , and as the days went by and still Minch did not come back , he seemed to sense too that the Sweeper cared and was on his side in wishing for her safe return . |
| 10 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 11 | The giant seemed to understand even before the trooper turned Biff 's utterance into swankwords . |
| 12 | Evidence seemed to harden somewhat when a Glamorgan farmer went to the aid of a ditched van one dark night . |
| 13 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 14 | At last I got on a bus , which trundled quite briskly to the far end of the King 's Road , but after World 's End , where the streets were darker , the fog seemed to close in and the bus was forced to nose its way cautiously along in first gear . |
| 15 | The first intimation of its scope came when the producer of Yorkshire Television 's daily regional current affairs programme , Calendar , came to complain bitterly that the task of getting that evening 's show on the air had been seriously handicapped . |
| 16 | It says much for Robertson that in spite of the general disorder he still contrived to look dangerous and Craig Levein and Derek Ferguson strove to play properly as the rubbish raged around them . |
| 17 | They failed to do so and the chance of forcing a negotiated peace was lost . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 19 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , public interest then began to fall off and the sing was suspended from 1866 until 1894 , except for a special event to raise funds for new public baths for Holmfirth in 1887 . |
| 21 | When the islands were first settled , the population began to increase rapidly and the number of inhabitants soon exceeded the resources , prompting emigration to other Portuguese lands . |
| 22 | The Doctor began to talk faster as the pain built up . |
| 23 | Grant felt a gentle lethargy creeping over him , and the aches and pains of his battered body began to ebb away as the drug started to take effect . |
| 24 | The nocturne began to grow again and the music was her essence . |
| 25 | Her cheeks began to fill out and the hollows by her collar bone were less noticeable , but the dullness in her blue eyes persisted . |
| 26 | The end came soon after the 62-year old patient 's kidneys began to shut down and the amount of blood pumped by his artificial heart dropped . |
| 27 | Where Roberts had commended Prince Albert 's provision of three bedrooms because the use of the living-room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding , the realists began to point out that the crowding occurred in any case , since even those who could afford to rent the extra rooms , could not afford to furnish them . |
| 28 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 29 | The birds hopped and sang for perhaps two minutes ; then the mechanism began to run down and the birds hopped more and more slowly and heavily , the twittering drew itself out in gasps . |
| 30 | Bayonets were carefully sharpened then fixed ; hearts began to beat faster as the minutes passed , and they waited in silence for the command to advance . |