Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 2 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 3 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 4 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 5 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 6 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 7 | In Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 the court held that where a lease provides that an application to appoint a surveyor is to be made to a specified appointing body like the RICS , the application had to follow the procedures laid down by that appointing body . |
| 8 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 9 | Not for a moment did his eyes sweep around the mountain heights which everywhere peered down on this upturned basin of ancient civilisation . |
| 10 | I flew Dawn once more and this time she crashed down near this particular boy 's feet . |
| 11 | The third came soon after when flanker Chris Clapcott crashed over for another converted try . |
| 12 | The inventory of the museum 's contents that he drew up with such meticulous care , accompanying his sections for each room with an admirable sketch showing the location of each item , remained in use and he catalogued the museum 's large collection of drawings by Robert Adam [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 14 | Loulou charged up to each new arrival , thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting . |
| 15 | While Otley and Nigel squared up to each other Elinor emptied the contents of the envelope onto the table : family snaps , letters , postcards belonging to the Chatwins , the coat of arms well in evidence and having the same circlet of tiny flowers as the monogram on Tumbleweed 's handkerchief . |
| 16 | As he staggered back with some misshapen logs , she would hand the bellows to her latest friend and say , ‘ You blow up my fire . |
| 17 | In the event , the General Council drew back from this extreme policy and the outcome was that , after months of violence and intense bitterness , George Ward won his point and unions were excluded from the Grunwick plant . |
| 18 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 19 | The aggregate supply curve traced out by these short-run deviations from the equilibrium real wage is and has a positive slope . |
| 20 | Although her pallor and her drawn features aged her , Wycliffe had the impression of a little girl caught out in some childish fault . |
| 21 | ‘ And when you found out about this new plan of theirs , they kidnapped Liam to stop you telling . ’ |
| 22 | For example , Primitive Germanic branched out into such different languages as Gothic , Old Saxon , Old High German , Old Norse and Old English . |
| 23 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |
| 24 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 25 | But she came down with this dreadful flu bug , so she 's taken to her bed . ’ |
| 26 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 27 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 28 | Her mother came in with some stewed plums in a bowl . |
| 29 | ‘ He came in with this folded mag ’ , remembers Sue Small . |
| 30 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |