Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 3 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 4 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 5 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 6 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 7 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 8 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 9 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 10 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 11 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 12 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 13 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 14 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 15 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
| 16 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 17 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 18 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 19 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 20 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 21 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 22 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 23 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 24 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 25 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 26 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 27 | Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face . |
| 28 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 29 | If this small group tried to draw up a new market contract , bargaining would be protracted because of the known absence of alternative partners . |
| 30 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |