Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 3 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 4 | Although official prices rose only 2 per cent , unsatisfied consumer demand ( estimated at a value of 165,000 million roubles ) drove up inflation to an annualized rate of 7.5 per cent . |
| 5 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 6 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 7 | For a moment the porch shadowed her , then the moon came out form behind the dissipating clouds . |
| 8 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 9 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 10 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 11 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 12 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 13 | However , the chairwoman of the Scottish Labour Party , Johann Lamont , ruled out support for a Scottish parliamentary council and was heckled when criticising the SNP 's action in voting with the Government last week . |
| 14 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde ( Ecology Generation ) , was promoted to Minister-Delegate responsible for the prevention of technological and natural disasters , while Hélène Dorlhac ( Union for French Democracy ) , Secretary of State for the Family , also took over responsibility for the Elderly , from Théo Braun who left the government . |
| 16 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 17 | He said the launch marked the start of a Skerneside Revival project which continued the good work of Railside Revival , which cleaned up land alongside the main east coast railway line through the borough . |
| 18 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 19 | The dog curled a lip at me but made no sound , then took up position in the front room doorway . |
| 20 | In the summer , strawberry sellers usually took up position around the Crimean Cannon at the side of the Council House and they had to dispose of all their perishable wares before returning home . |
| 21 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 22 | He now took up residence in a small house at South Bank , Regent 's Park , in order , according to one authority , to be near his medical advisers . |
| 23 | Several young couples took up residence in a neighbouring parish at the start of their married lives but returned later to inherit the family property . |
| 24 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , ‘ The Tasmanian Devil , ’ today took up residence in the high-security wing of this semi-private mental hospital . |
| 25 | ‘ The Myrcans , when they were first created out of Dwarf-hewn and Giant-riven stone , took up residence in the broad Dale of Glen-arric , and in time that place became known as Merkadale , as it still is called today . |
| 26 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 27 | Maggie had been stewing meat , and now she rolled out pastry with a heavy glass roller like the one Mrs Martin had used in the Bradfords ' kitchen . |
| 28 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |
| 29 | She edged out Hatoof in a tight finish to the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp on Arc day and holds Central City — also in today 's Newbury field — on earlier running in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot , when the pair were second and third to another unbeaten filly , Marling . |
| 30 | Mark Ainger read from the roughly chalked up notice in the steamy window . |