Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 2 | The Government promised to consult the disabled persons transport advisory committee on the introduction of new regulations that would result in better standards of accessibility to buses for the handicapped and the disabled . |
| 3 | Not since the days when Gosplan tried to micro-manage the Soviet Union have government employees attempted anything quite so ambitious , not to say foolhardy . |
| 4 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 5 | Almost two years later , the memory of that wonderful day returned to help the 22-year-old Englishman claim his first victory on the PGA European Tour . |
| 6 | I got into the car ; we started to reverse the fifty yards back up the drive . |
| 7 | Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section . |
| 8 | When all of the bells had been rung I started to make the other pupils do chairs . |
| 9 | Firemen had climb through a window to rescue Natalie Prosser , aged 13 months , from her home at The Fairway , Saltburn , yesterday after she managed to slam the French windows shut when her mum popped into the back garden . |
| 10 | At the time , we had also been commissioned by a Hess sheep owner to take a party of shepherds and dogs to North Rona , where we hoped to cull the resident sheep flock , selecting a number for sale in Stornoway . |
| 11 | The High Court sought to make the final damages reflect Mr Shove 's actual loss . |
| 12 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 13 | At first it seemed that he intended to resist the radical proposals put forward by delegates , when during radio broadcasts of the debates he was heard angrily to interrupt the speakers , declaring on Feb. 27 that the proceedings constituted a " civilian coup d'état " . |
| 14 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |