Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was not until 1940 that under the demands of world conflict and with cost almost no object , the War Agricultural Committees laid down thousands of miles of concrete roads along the droveways throughout the fens . |
| 3 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 4 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 5 | The Poor Law was already almost entirely financed by local poor rates ; rates contributed over one-third of total educational expenditure ( £8.8 m. in 1900 ) and the major part of the cost of public health , housing and other measures . |
| 6 | Although there were limited route transfers to British Caledonian before privatisation , BA was left as the dominant carrier and , at the time of privatisation , provided over three-quarters of British scheduled airline services . |
| 7 | The party officers and Whips were solidly behind Chamberlain , but Law drew off some of his support among tariff reformers and , urged on by Edward Goulding and Max Aitken , he refused to withdraw unless his continued candidature would allow Long to win . |
| 8 | The sword gone , a boat drew up full of women wearing black hoods including Morgan le Fay , Arthur 's half sister . |
| 9 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 10 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 11 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 12 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 13 | ‘ We used up all of the flood plains before , so controlled flooding may not be the answer . |
| 14 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 15 | One very small piece could kill her , ’ shouted back one of the men . |
| 16 | Chapters 3 and 4 followed this up by investigating the principal forms of capitalist property , with particular reference to the British case , and Chapter 5 drew out some of the political implications of that investigation . |
| 17 | I was talking to someone earlier and I found out one of my favourite films , ‘ A Clockwork Orange ’ , was banned in Britain . |
| 18 | they found out both of them |
| 19 | Wolfgang and his mother obediently moved on to Augsburg , where Wolfgang gave a concert , visited the well-known manufacturer of fortepianos , Herr Stein , and tried out some of his instruments . |
| 20 | As part of their familiarisation process with the new assessment procedures , the students tried out some of the tasks from the Negotiator module in pairs . |
| 21 | Then just before I blacked out one of them said , ‘ This is your one and only warning ’ , or something like that . ’ |
| 22 | It is an exciting garden , the hedges and paths divide it so that you come upon different parts almost by surprise , such as the scented garden , the woodland garden , built around some of the trees that Colonel Mitchell left behind him , with a sturdy wooden tree-house for the children , and the patio garden where the Prince sits and does paperwork during the summer months to the soothing sound of water , which springs from a sculpture he commissioned of stone whales . |
| 23 | A woman 's face peered round one of the doors . |
| 24 | The value of A 2 will tell us whether or not the size of the polymer coil , which is dissolved in a particular solvent , will be perturbed or expanded over that of the unperturbed state , but the extent of this expansion is best estimated by calculating the expansion factor α . |
| 25 | Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment . |
| 26 | Realizing that her tea was going cold , she gulped down half of it . |
| 27 | He filled in most of the coupons again and got a further selection of condoms , Bob Martin 's and catalogues . |
| 28 | Without even trespassing into any of these more perilous aspects of pre-war street life , the Mass Observation study The Pub and the People ( 1943 ) filled in some of the detail of the rowdy bonhomie of the working-class weekend , and the ‘ high point of mass drunkenness ’ during the exodus from the northern towns to Blackpool . |
| 29 | In 1900 they were no more often in poverty than the working class of any age , but by 1935 they had become significantly more vulnerable , and in 1950 the elderly comprised over two-thirds of all the poor . |
| 30 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |