Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 2 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 3 | Sleep always came to him easily and quickly , very often unexpectedly , burying him when he was n't looking . |
| 4 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 5 | Lugar also served as county surveyor for Essex from 1812 to 1816 , and became a freeman of Colchester in 1812 . |
| 6 | Cook also referred to Diplock 's ‘ evident distaste for trade unions ’ and said it was well known that ‘ taps ’ were frequently placed on trade unionists involved in trade disputes . |
| 7 | The project which we report here came into being because of this concern ; it was one of several recent attempts , all part of the same climate of interest , to sustain some highly dependent old people in non-institutional settings . |
| 8 | Yes I hope so appeared to be . |
| 9 | Effectively the police budget only grew by 5.4 in 1991-92 over the previous year , in the face of inflation and pay awards running at 9.5 . ’ |
| 10 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 11 | Zack finally rang at 1.20 p.m. , the height of the lunch-time rush-hour , while Laing was finishing his coffee and Moss was entranced by a new child-abuse movie fresh in from Amsterdam . |
| 12 | Half a mile away smoke still rose from Dangerfield 's machine , where he had crash-landed on fire after stopping a burst of tracer in the wing . |
| 13 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 14 | As early leader Diamond Cut quickly threw in the towel three out , Sweet Duke and Baydon Star went clear . |
| 15 | AINTREE racecourse yesterday leapt to the defence of the £5-a-race flagman accused of bearing the major blame for this year 's Grand National fiasco . |
| 16 | Hope also paid for the chapel . |
| 17 | Hope also quarrelled with the vicar , and in 1854 left , not to return to the church for twenty years . |
| 18 | Pesnel also succeeded in becoming the heir of Suzanne de Canson who died in 1986 . |
| 19 | Support also grew for a new political movement , the environmentalists or Greens . |
| 20 | Shortly afterwards the local Fine Gael cumann also objected to it . |
| 21 | He and his Thai counterpart Anand Panyarachun signed on Feb. 19 a friendship and co-operation treaty ; Khamtay also met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and an agreement was concluded under which Thailand would help to develop tourism in Laos . |
| 22 | On a visit to Paris in 1792 , Losh narrowly escaped from the city during the September massacres , possibly owing his escape to the influence of Jean Paul Marat , who had practised as a veterinary surgeon in Newcastle . |
| 23 | Tally sometimes participated in the banter but we were generally left undisturbed when we were talking . |
| 24 | Jochim almost nipped in there between Chettle and Tommy Wright . |
| 25 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 26 | Paige nimbly rose to her feet . |
| 27 | DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago . |
| 28 | Some , encouraged by the EOC have offered Women into Accounting , Women into Management and Women into Public Life courses , aimed at women trying to break into areas of employment and influence usually monopolised by men . |
| 29 | Jaq still reeled at the grandeur and abomination of the enterprise … |
| 30 | Kwik Save also prosecuted for offering Danish blue cheese which was unfit because of its bacteria count , and having food on sale at temperatures of up to 20 degrees which should have been stored at a maximum of eight degrees centigrade . |