Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But policy passed since states permission will not be granted to any business or organisation to sell goods or services in any of the council 's car parks . |
| 2 | He recovered sufficiently to make love once more before they went to bed , but it was n't as frantic or as demanding and he fell asleep afterwards on the sofa . |
| 3 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 4 | Delegates agreed only to postpone action until after a decision by the UN General Assembly [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 5 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 6 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 7 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 8 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 9 | Frisch suggested that underweight women would also have impaired reproductive function owing to a lack of oestrogen produced in adipose tissue . |
| 10 | The first stage , of direct military rule , sought merely to suppress opposition to Japanese control — a short-lived republic was declared in 1895 — and wipe out the widespread banditry and disturbances which had long plagued the island under Chinese rule . |
| 11 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 12 | Initially the chairman was Sir Edward Boyle , followed by the shadow Home Secretary , Peter Thorneycroft , when Boyle moved on to become deputy chairman of the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 13 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 14 | On the way out the head knelt down to say goodbye to Balbinder , who was still looking rather mystified but was much less clinging and was smiling more . |
| 15 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 16 | Malekith moved swiftly to restore order . |
| 17 | Residents cheered when a bulldozer moved in to demolish wartime flats and maisonettes condemned by tenants as a disgrace . |
| 18 | In 1938 they moved in to take control of Denham Studios . |
| 19 | The other characters were a sold-out leftie academic ( who drew much knowing laughter from the first-night audience ) , a right-wing academic , a military automaton , and an Amstrad word-processor which enigmatically took the floor in a central scene . |
| 20 | The other pilot was either new or nervous ; probably both ; he zigzagged desperately to avoid Church 's sniping . |
| 21 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 22 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 23 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 24 | Coach Nigel Botherway said Hayes , which had one player sent off and won the tie 14-11 , tried desperately to make peace . |
| 25 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 26 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 27 | Milton and Pooley caught each other 's eyes and tried not to register disbelief . |
| 28 | The press of people thinned out as everybody moved outside to see H.R.H. |
| 29 | Son of a head of ideology on the Communist party 's Central Committee , Legasov became a chemist and rose rapidly to become deputy head of the Kurchatov Institute of nuclear science — and a friend of the powerful . |
| 30 | She slid into sleep as dawn approached but rose early to make tea . |