Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Whether such complex formal procedures could be incorporated into a graduated test scheme seems doubtful ; the few existing schemes in Britain make use of less formal teacher judgement , within guidelines from the central development team , or laid down criterion scores in tests . |
2 | For your chance to claim one of our 100 1992 Carnation Model Delivery Vans , write with your name and address on the back of a postcard ( or sealed down envelope to : Carnation Offer , Echo Dept C , PO Box 48 , Old Hall Street , Liverpool , L69 3EB . |
3 | For your chance to claim one of our 100 1992 Carnation Model Delivery Vans , write — including your name and address on the back of a postcard ( or sealed down envelope to : Carnation Offer , Liverpool Echo Dept C , PO Box 48 , Old Hall Street , Liverpool , L69 3EB . |
4 | Put your name and address on the back of a postcard ( or sealed down envelope ) and send it to : Cheesecake Offer , Liverpool Echo , Dept . |
5 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
6 | It also returns to neutral after the wheels have reached the fully up or locked down position . |
7 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
8 | The system can activate central alarms or shut down distribution systems in affected areas . |
9 | The petition must state : ( i ) the debtor 's name , address and occupation ( if any ) ; ( ii ) the name in which the debtor carried on business if other than his own name and if the business is carried on jointly with others ; ( iii ) the nature and address of the debtor 's business ; ( iv ) the name in which the debtor carried on business when the debt was incurred ; ( v ) the address at which the debtor resided or carried on business at or after that time and the nature of that business . |
10 | artwork or pasted up material that is ready for reproduction . |
11 | Cabinets that are of the infinite baffle , or closed back design , such as the Marshall 4x12 do suffer from this minor , but annoying problem . |
12 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
13 | Was there any way he could have traced her call or picked up background noise and was now rushing downtown in a wild attempt to snatch the film from her ? |
14 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
15 | She still saw him , made a point of popping over to say hullo to Uncle Willi and sought out Georg in the dairy or the office . |
16 | P — Process package/product ( displays package contents and allows you to select modules for transfer ) and read out package module |
17 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
18 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
19 | It was then that James John Weeble , a deaf man from Redruth , came upon the scene , and swam out fully-clothed , and succeeded in dragging both men back to the beach . |
20 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
21 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
22 | Jean-Claude made some notes and sang some snatches and beat out percussion ideas on the ground with an alder switch . |
23 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
24 | This situation is shown in Fig. 17.3 , where investors anticipated interest rate increases ( and hence sold gilts and drove down gilt prices ) prior to June 1988 , when bank base rates began to rise from 7.5% , until they peaked at 15% in October 1989 . |
25 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
26 | Giles Shaw , Britain 's junior minister , joined American calls for more research and played down acidification as ‘ a problem of great complexity ’ affecting ‘ certain limited areas of the world ’ . |
27 | In areas of shallow coal seams and dried out peat deposits , fires can smoulder below ground level for years . |
28 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
29 | St Paul was emphatic that by receiving the broken bread and poured out wine , the believer is participating in the self-offering of the Son to the Father in his broken body and shed blood . |
30 | To secure that share of the Frankish heartlands , Charles had fought Fontenoy , and faced down Lothar at Koblenz . |