Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 2 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 3 | I frantically started to use my hands to bale out the water in an attempt to avoid the seemingly inevitable embarrassing swim in to the beach and the awaiting crowd of families and friends . |
| 4 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 5 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 6 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 7 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 8 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 9 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything might have happened , ’ she said , putting her hands over her eyes to shut out the horrors of the market , remembering with longing the cellophane-wrapped , refrigerated coolness of the shops at home . |
| 11 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 12 | Gardeners have been inviting the public to look round their allotments to show off the advantages of organic methods of growing vegetables . |
| 13 | She put her hands over her ears to shut out a repetition of all those humiliating accusations , her training flying straight out of the window . |
| 14 | ‘ Jeez , I could do with that cup of tea , ’ Mrs Bennet said , putting her hands over her ears to shut out the tumult above , and Anne decided to go upstairs to see if the gas was still on . |
| 15 | Rory held both hands over her ears to drown out the flow of apparently inane chatter . |
| 16 | It was bitterly cold in the cell-like bedroom and the two girls were huddled on the bed , wrapped in blankets , with cats draped over their feet to keep out the cold . |
| 17 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 18 | The United States would request its allies to fill in the ‘ vacuum ’ created by such cutbacks — this would increase the so-called burden sharing . |
| 19 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 20 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 21 | She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself . |
| 22 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 23 | The leading central banks are expected to redouble their efforts to push down the dollar once the German decision is announced — something which may ease pressure on the pound if it changes the focus of attention in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 24 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 25 | Outside Europe international finance would pool its resources to open up the biggest prize of all — the vast reservoir of cheap labour awaiting Western exploitation in China . |
| 26 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 27 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 28 | Observers noted , however , that after the seventh party plenum , the government had stepped up its efforts to rein in the country 's increasingly outspoken journalists , especially after a conference of writers in October defied the party 's attempt to dictate proceedings and demanded more democracy in the country [ see p. 37123 for approval of a new restrictive press law at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly in late December 1989 ] . |
| 29 | It provides , secondly , that long elusive missing link , decision taken on 5 Corps ' signal on 23 May reiterating that it could only carry out its orders to hand over the Cossacks if it was given authorization to use force . |
| 30 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |