Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proposals for ‘ top-down ’ changes , which effectively sought to redraw the service boundaries , would probably achieve little , however , unless the real operational problems of delivering the service to individual clients were also tackled . |
| 2 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 3 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 4 | Inevitably , many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government . |
| 5 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 6 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 7 | I suppose being realistic we could clean the car out in the evening because you only got to have the door open you 've got the interior light on |
| 8 | Anne crouched , and gently tried to pull the pillow away . |
| 9 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 10 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 11 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 12 | Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them , a red mist igniting . |
| 13 | Devlins Paddy did nothing special in his next three races but then suddenly seemed to get the hang of chasing over the barriers . |
| 14 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 15 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 16 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 17 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 18 | He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds , to be paid after the siege was over or , in case of death , by his executors to certain of her relations ; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea , Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively : " To Whomsoever May Find This Missive , I , George Fleury , Being Then Deceased , " and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction . |
| 19 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 20 | It suddenly began to close the distance between them and Chrissie felt her heart beat increasing to an almost violent rate . |
| 21 | They only served to emphasise the power and toughness which was the man beneath the civilised veneer , and Fran shivered , wishing she had never started this by letting her emotions come to the surface . |
| 22 | Finding a seat to the back of the church I took a prayer book , and kneeling down began to find the place . |
| 23 | For our purpose it is important to note that it merely threatened to dent the Treasury ascendancy over economic policy-making . |
| 24 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 25 | ( They have also recognized the political virtues of pluralistic multi-party democracy , which pluralism appeared to celebrate while Marxists previously derided it as ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ which merely served to mystify the reality of class oppression . ) |
| 26 | The Labour Party warned against taking part in any such movement which obviously threatened to disturb the balance maintained at Party Conference by the union block vote . |
| 27 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 28 | As he repositioned the pins , she suddenly decided to take the opportunity to mention Constance and her plans for her . |
| 29 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 30 | It suddenly started to make the long-drawn-out screaming noise of bits of metal in distress . |