Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode slowly to avoid splashing , although the horses ' instinct clearly was to hurry over . |
| 2 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 3 | Here classical elite theorists proved hard to pin down , specifying the ruling elite in different ways which they made little attempt to operationalize in empirical work . |
| 4 | Early models , for example , made little attempt to show the dynamic forces at play between the elements , while it has always been necessary to question the basis of the model construction in order to avoid the perpetuation of a flawed assumption . |
| 5 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 6 | Advocates of the popular front made little attempt to build a single co-ordinated organization . |
| 7 | Downing Street sources made little attempt to choke off intense speculation among MPs that a limited Cabinet shake-up is still on the cards . |
| 8 | He recognized his limitations , but he made little attempt to develop another technique . |
| 9 | Negotiations between the Republic and the Vatican languished ; many Spanish bishops , including the primate , Cardinal-Archbishop Segura of Toledo , made little attempt to conceal their hostility to the Republic , Segura himself being eventually declared persona non grata by the government ; and in May 1931 Catholic sensibilities were outraged when the Provisional Government appeared unwilling to crush an outburst of church-burning and anticlerical violence in Madrid and several southern cities . |
| 10 | The consultation period came to an end on 16 September and we then got down to work assessing the reaction . |
| 11 | Gradually film production became their main preoccupation , but only Cecil Hepworth became sufficiently involved to continue after the industry had hit its first crisis . |
| 12 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're very sorry about poor 'Annah passin' on , so we thought we 'ad better come to pay our respects . ’ |
| 14 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 15 | All of them got highly commended did n't they ? |
| 16 | The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray . |
| 17 | On the plane , which had armrests a foot wide , made in a plastic that looked like jellied gold lamé , he pretended suddenly to have remembered something and drew a rumpled piece of paper out of his wallet . |
| 18 | But Fraser , steady as ever after missing five Tests through injury , found enough lift to have Sidhu sharply caught off bat and pad by John Morris . |
| 19 | She was n't sure just how she felt , but she retained enough control to know that she could n't give in to shock in front of fitzAlan . |
| 20 | ‘ Dr Henry is extremely short-sighted and as he bent down to try to find them , he was punched a second time , which caused him to fall back and land on a bench , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 21 | I nodded my White Sox cap in his direction and bent down to start screwing back the vent cover . |
| 22 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 23 | Clarissa kindly offered him first bath — if he promised not to go looking for pretty Mosleyites , but Charles smiled and shook his head . |
| 24 | Grigoriev was watching avidly , and Rostov pretended not to have understood the remark . |
| 25 | Patrice pretended not to have heard . |
| 26 | He pretended not to have read the piece . |
| 27 | we tried desperately to avoid looking at her , right . |
| 28 | From April 1st anyone found not to have followed guidelines on making VAT claims and payments will be liable to a penalty that could cost them and extra 30% plus interest on any unpaid tax . |
| 29 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
| 30 | As she looked into it , she tried not to let slip just what a luxury this was . |