Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 2 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 3 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 4 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 5 | When Lilly finally handed over reports from the June symposium to the Committee on Safety of Medicines on 7 October it also proposed that the data sheets of information to doctors be changed to recommend ‘ half doses to the elderly ’ , according to the DHSS press office , or ‘ reduction of dosage to over 75s ’ according to the health minister . |
| 6 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 7 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 8 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 9 | This study has of course raised new problems , and thereby opened up avenues for further investigation . |
| 10 | ‘ The centre 's management supplied us with the display screens , upon which we quickly pinned up posters , photographs and press-cuttings . |
| 11 | Beowulf denies he ever sought out searo-niþas , ‘ cunning malices ’ , Grendel 's corpse-holding glove is searo-bendum fæst , ‘ fixed with cunning bands ’ . |
| 12 | In her later prison visiting she always sought out prostitutes for kindness . |
| 13 | And the management always came out tops you see . |
| 14 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 15 | MANAGERS of Binns in Middlesbrough yesterday covered up mannequins left naked in a shop window during a display change after a passer-by complained . |
| 16 | But along the edge of the attic , under the low eaves , stood three old-fashioned trunks , of the kind people once took on cruises , " for use on the voyage " . |
| 17 | James Gilbey , whose intimate phone call to Diana was taped , yesterday laughed off suggestions that he was going to be her public escort . |
| 18 | He had the anxious , wary look he always wore around women who were indulging in any essentially feminine pursuit — like crying , being coy , spending money on fripperies , or gossiping . |
| 19 | And he still picked up bits of stuff . |
| 20 | AN independent inquiry yesterday backed up allegations that a South African police ‘ death squad ’ had killed anti-apartheid activists . |
| 21 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 22 | The declaration also laid down guidelines on peace and disarmament issues , development , the environmental challenge , the realization of full political and economic democracy , culture and society , and the role of women and men in society . |
| 23 | In his acceptance speech , he called on industrialised countries to take steps to reduce worldwide demand for cocaine , he also ruled out pardons for drug traffickers , and said he 'd maintain extradition agreements . |
| 24 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 25 | The GFCCG also drew up plans to raise additional funds , estimated at $4,000 million-$5,000 million , for 1991 . |
| 26 | There 's a , I , I nearly booked up tickets to go and see this , but I did n't know if anybody would fancy going to see it with me . |
| 27 | The convention also turned down proposals to limit the President 's tenure to two five-year terms , to allow more than one presidential candidate and for members of the UNIP central committee and other party officials to be elected by popular vote . |
| 28 | It also threw up confusions . |
| 29 | She held her Mediterranean court in consort with Françoise Sagan whose bitter-sweet novelettes , like Bonjour Tristesse , also revolved round heroines who chose and discarded their lovers at whim . |
| 30 | Hermes also watched over travellers , and roads often sported wayside shrines or hermaeia which featured a bust of the god , or the herald 's staff which was his emblem . |