Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 2 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 3 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 4 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 5 | Hannele , sensing this , whipped down the buttons very quickly and , before pulling down his trousers , put her fingers into the flap of his white cotton underdrawers and freed it . |
| 6 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 7 | How good that wine tasted , if only because I secretly thought , what a rare old vintage I must be quaffing , laid down no doubt before the Battle of Trafalgar ! |
| 8 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 9 | The getaway driver , in a blue Ford , laid down a burst of suppressing fire , forcing the bodyguards to dive for cover . |
| 10 | The troops would n't leave the trenches , so the French generals laid down a barrage on them . |
| 11 | Troops laid down a smokescreen to cover the rescue of the victims , who were not immediately named . |
| 12 | Mel Chin ( USA , b. 1951 ) laid down a field of plants which extract heavy metals from the ground by a process called hyperaccumulation , in his ‘ Revival field Netherlands : simultaneous replicated field experiments ’ . |
| 13 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 14 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 15 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 16 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 17 | Major-General Frank Kitson , writing in 1977 , laid down a code of basic principles for the guidance of a government fighting terrorism . |
| 18 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |
| 19 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 20 | Lord Diplock laid down a presumptions approach to the question : One starts with the presumption … that where an Act creates an obligation , and enforces the performance in a specified manner … that performance can not be enforced in any other manner … |
| 21 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 23 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 24 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 25 | The other ( a Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Dudley ) laid down the forms and the space and equipment standards for post-war housing , and in conjunction with a team from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning , examined matters such as housing layout and densities . |
| 26 | She laid down the printing frame that she held . |
| 27 | Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’ |
| 28 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 29 | She laid down the brush and faced Shae directly . |
| 30 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |