Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willi bounced about filling up everyone 's glasses ; more corks popped . |
| 2 | There were no champions to fight their cause , so Celie , her friends and family could not show their anger openly in case they punished for speaking out . |
| 3 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 4 | Well he , he left he was with Karen he came to me he left me and went down to Gloucester he dithered about running up and down the road between Gloucester and here er Stowmarket . |
| 5 | She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight . |
| 6 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |
| 7 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 8 | The staff in the main were machine operators , whose jobs ranged from cutting out the designs from the cloth to skilfully stitching the garments together . |
| 9 | They found that the types of pupil behaviour in the secondary school classroom presenting teachers with the most difficulty ranged from talking out of turn , physical aggression towards the teacher , calculated idleness , verbal abuse , hindrance of other pupils , general rowdiness and so on . |
| 10 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 11 | These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted . |
| 12 | Although he moved to Halling in May it was n't until October that they married . |
| 13 | It certainly contributed to holding down inflation , so that the money wages generated by the high demand for labour were easily translated into product wage increases and the necessary scrapping rates achieved . |
| 14 | A cheer went up with only a single shout of ‘ Shame ! ’ — and recognizing defeat , Will turned and fled without carrying out his threat . |
| 15 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 16 | Spreadeagled on the roof of the car in a scissors or St Andrew 's Cross position , he concentrated on holding on and not losing his balance as the train gathered speed under the shadow of the Westway and rocked past the desolate terraces of north Kensington . |
| 17 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 18 | For the next ten years , Richard II concentrated on building up a reputation with a reputably good government beside him against his powerful uncles . |
| 19 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 20 | As a result , Stodart ‘ concentrated on tidying up overlapping and concurrent functions in planning , leisure , tourism , environmental health and industrial development ’ ( Keating and Midwinter 1983 : 102 ) . |
| 21 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 22 | But I could n't shake him on it , so then I concentrated on finding out which hospital you were in . |
| 23 | In the first half Leeds concentrated on attacking down the left wing . |
| 24 | If you must exercise flights of fancy , I 'd much rather you concentrated on working out how Chatterton could have committed murder . |
| 25 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 26 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
| 27 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 28 | The Library is grateful to readers who helped by filling in a questionnaire . |
| 29 | He had lost half his command , and failed of winning back Harry for whom he had come . |
| 30 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |