Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool will probably want around £750,000 for the player who Tranmere tried to take on loan earlier this season . |
| 2 | The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth . |
| 3 | The car began to pick up speed , and Jessamy glanced out of the window . |
| 4 | In the late 1960s almost all major exporters began to cut back production , apparently believing that surpluses would otherwise become unsustainable . |
| 5 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 6 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | Previously the authors had carried out research on paraprofessional social service personnel in their own two countries — Israel and the USA ( Brawley and Schindler , 1972 ; Brawley , 1975 ; Schindler , 1980 ; 1982 ) . |
| 8 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 9 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |
| 10 | Whether Branson had taken over Virgin Atlantic or it had overtaken him was difficult to tell . |
| 11 | In addition , the Council agreed to put up cycle/ pedestrian direction signs at suitable locations nearby , so that people , local or not , are aware of the path 's existence . |
| 12 | The announcement everyone had been waiting for came on time as British Telecom proposed to put up telephone bills by five per cent . |
| 13 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council decided to take out membership of CPRE as a local organisation . |
| 14 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |
| 15 | Out of the former PNI , Sukarno had taken up partindo , and within one year its membership soared to 20000 . |
| 16 | However much she was questioned , Edna had shut up shop , as it were , whenever Celia mentioned her mother . |
| 17 | In fact he had telegraphed the Informer for some expenses ‘ to entertaining priest ’ , and , bewildered by this unusual demand , the editor had wired back money . |
| 18 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 19 | In the last government scandal — the Muldergate affair in the late 70s — Mr Botha , was forced to fire a judicial inquiry because the judge refused to cover up corruption . |
| 20 | Since the 1980s , community organisations began to set up resource centres to serve and empower marginalised societies . |
| 21 | As Cameron started to pick out wood to finish the forward half of the roof , Iain said to him quietly , ‘ Sandy McGlashan is not the only man with troubles . |
| 22 | Although Invergordon had cut back production like most other distillers , Dr Greig stressed that there would be no closures or job losses , though he also said that life was ‘ becoming more competitive all the time ’ . |
| 23 | Admittedly , these were early days in the season , before the tough training schedule at Richmond had beefed up fitness levels . |
| 24 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 25 | Security sources said that artillery units in the security zone also shelled Lebanese villages 15 km from the Israeli border , in the Iqilm and Toufah areas , where pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalists were believed to be preparing to infiltrate the security zone ; it was reported that Palestinians had set up multibarrel rocket-launchers aimed at Israel there . |
| 26 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 27 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 28 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 29 | ( Martin had taken up residence there by 1667 , following his marriage , and Jean by 1668 , the year his eldest son died ( Arch . |
| 30 | His plea came as America confirmed Serbs had set up concentration camps in which thousands of Bosnian and Croatian civilians were detained or tortured and killed . |