Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |
| 2 | Why has the Secretary of State failed effectively to tackle those problems and to take action against the excessive profits and unacceptable boardroom pay rises and perks ? |
| 3 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |
| 4 | And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other . |
| 5 | Although the research reviewed below indicates some of the approaches made to these problems many difficulties still remain , partly because of the rich and sometimes ambiguous nature of art itself but also because of the value that is placed upon the validity of individual response in these areas . |
| 6 | The language I used obviously means this : the plaintiff in order to make out a cause of action must assert certain facts which , if traversed , he would be put to prove . |
| 7 | I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) . |
| 8 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |
| 9 | A JET crashed yesterday killing all 157 people on board — bringing chilling echoes of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 10 | Trembling with relief , she bent quickly to add another log to the fire , using the small task to break the heavy silence . |
| 11 | The paper tried yesterday to rebut such views in an editorial comment , adorned with Labour 's red rose insigne . |
| 12 | He said the council received about £200,000 a year to act as the collecting agent for the water authority but it cost nearly double that to do it . |
| 13 | Graham Rose also includes some fascinating historical background information . |
| 14 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 15 | Now , how did these people you mentioned before make this track at , it was a better made track , you said it was n't just a beaten |
| 16 | Many tried simply to deny all memories of the Third Reich or else to question the notion of collective guilt ; others were concerned that the old authoritarian values did survive beneath the surface , that civil servants remained in office despite serving the Nazis and that the basis for a genuine new democracy was not therefore laid after the war . |
| 17 | Coincident with , but unrelated to the Conservative tide in the wee hours of Friday morning , Tokyo 's beleaguered stock market bounced dramatically to erase some of its recent losses . |
| 18 | He tried hard to do this , but he was fighting a losing battle here against the rising tide of papal authority . |
| 19 | Just to see what it would feel like , Boy tried hard to copy this attitude during the film he watched the next afternoon . |
| 20 | This is the point at which Aspect and his colleagues at Orsay stepped in with an experiment designed specifically to satisfy these two requirements . |
| 21 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 22 | Putting aside their more immediate patriotic considerations , the Lions ' selectors and coaches might be glad enough to have as much supporting evidence as possible with regard to eschewing token selections , made just to keep all four countries happy , and that could certainly make a difference to the size of the Scottish contingent . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought Rosamund seemed rather flustered this morning when I saw her . ’ |
| 24 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 25 | I do n't know where , I thought I left my case here , I do n't know what I 've done with my case that 's all , it 's probably downstairs oh oh I do n't know , mm still not able to find it I think I 'd better put these plants out mm that 's right , oh , mm that 's not there right , I 'd better switch this , the tape off cos there 's not much , be much conversation now for a while |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better burn that , ’ he indicated the compost , ‘ or bury it . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd better burn this . |
| 28 | Now , when asked if I would introduce this subject , she said , I think I 'd better mention this for the sake of the truth , |
| 29 | They do n't know they is n't gon na just churn out , oh yeah well we 'd better pay that mate , eighteen thousand quid ! |
| 30 | Then I think we 'd better pay this Mr Butcher a visit . ’ |