Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both women went to a ‘ smoking cessation course ’ the company laid on before the policy went on stream . |
| 2 | She was roughly shaken , but clung on until the man said : |
| 3 | Dubois asked slowly as the Doctor ushered him and Petion back out . |
| 4 | When the chief minister of Maharashtra became uppity earlier this year , Mr Gandhi arranged for dissidents to mount a campaign to get rid of him , and relented only after the chief minister ate humble pie . |
| 5 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 6 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ And the interview ? ’ she asked nicely before the trail went cold . |
| 8 | The second covers a miscellany of submissions , some on a yearly or other periodic basis , others made only when the need arises . |
| 9 | Retail Runner , who made all when a highly impressive eight-length winner at Ascot on his reappearance , looks set to take the Hallowe'en Novices Chase . |
| 10 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 11 | He rose politely as the waiter ferried her across the room . |
| 12 | There is a simple form of the STV , used only when a single candidate is to be elected , namely the alternative vote ( the AV ) . |
| 13 | The torch beam jerked suddenly as the Baronne moved her hand in an irritable gesture of negation . |
| 14 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 15 | Marked variations have also occurred in the timing of the studies following infarction , the site of stimulation and protocol used especially as the more aggressive protocols using increased current strength and extra stimuli number are known to have an increased sensitivity for the detection of clinical ventricular arrhythmias . |
| 16 | William , who attended the meeting , also agreed that he behaved better when the eyes of the world were upon him . |
| 17 | He found , for example , that cover values for vegetation , litter and bare ground were distinct between sites that had been moderately and severely affected with a less distinct gradation occurring between slightly and moderately disturbed sites , and that noticeable exposure of mineral soil occurred only after the vegetation cover was reduced by c. 40 per cent . |
| 18 | Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) found clear evidence supporting the Samuelson hypothesis for index futures , but this occurred only when the high and low prices were used in the volatility measure . |
| 19 | This linear relation has been confirmed with in vivo perfusion studies of human jejunum where net absorption of sodium from isotonic enteral feeds containing glucose polymer occurred only when the sodium concentration was above 80–90 mmol/l . |
| 20 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |
| 21 | He stopped only when the boy shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ , thereby agreeing to buy his new work-mates a pint each of beer . |
| 22 | And Phyllis put her skates on — off she went — bought a house down there — she moved in before the factory opened . |
| 23 | She pretended to swoon and the four girls laughed and joked together until the queue moved into the cinema . |
| 24 | The number of entries in the parish register dwindled in the middle decades of the seventeenth century , suggesting that many villagers moved elsewhere once the arable fields were enclosed . |
| 25 | At a meeting of Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers held at the invitation of the Czechoslovak government in Prague on March 17 , participants disagreed over whether a united Germany should belong to NATO or be neutral . |
| 26 | Really , we moved just before the recession took hold , otherwise we could n't have done it . |
| 27 | The Beveridge Committee , which reported shortly before the Churchill government took office in 195 1 , saw no conflict . |
| 28 | He dropped the gun from his shoulder again , and bent over as the laughter wracked him , all the more powerful for being silent , for being trapped inside . |
| 29 | The chief designer objected strenuously until the move was found to be successful , when it became a long-cherished personal proposal previously vetoed by management . |
| 30 | The chief designer objected strenuously until the move was found to be successful , when it became a long-cherished personal proposal previously vetoed by management . |