Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profit taking among construction groups wiped out the gains made in the wake of the Chancellor 's speech . |
| 2 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
| 3 | Only migratory birds sought out the marshes — in late summer on the way south to warmer climes and in early spring on the way north to breeding grounds . |
| 4 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 5 | In relation to Chloe , Pauline and Dan lived out the conflicts of their own adolescence . |
| 6 | I 'd blown it , and I stood on stage in a semi-circle with the rest of the acts and an artificially bright smile , while the compère read out the marks awarded to each act by the three judges . |
| 7 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
| 8 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
| 9 | She smiled , and her heart beat away the seconds , tick-tock , tick-tock , tick-tock . |
| 10 | For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The military were fully alerted and when the village priest read out the details the police were in attendance to stifle the groans of disbelief with which they were met . |
| 12 | And then the music stopped and Fael-Inis laid down the pipes and turned his golden gaze on Fergus , and the spell faded , and a cold awareness flooded Fergus 's mind . |
| 13 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 14 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 15 | The adviser spelt out the details of the scheme , saying that the self-appraisal consisted of providing factual information , looking at what they were doing and describing it so that advisers could understand what they are trying to do . |
| 16 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 17 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 18 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 19 | Between them , Raymond Cusick and Bill Roberts worked out the practicalities of making the Dalek . |
| 20 | Eloise switched on the lights . |
| 21 | Innocent 's reforming programme targeted both the bishops and the clergy . |
| 22 | In this way , Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies . |
| 23 | The obstetrician pulled out the feet , then the bottom , then suddenly i had this huge sinking feeling as my bump disappeared and most of the baby shot out and landed on my tummy . |
| 24 | The wind blew down the tents of the other lads he had joined in camping on an apparently sheltered spot in a hollow above the sea . |
| 25 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 26 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 27 | Cos the lads knew where the slates was , and it was n't far from the surface . |
| 28 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 29 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |
| 30 | Cornelius observed that several strands of J-Cloth wig spelled out the words ‘ There is no God but Allah ’ in Arabic across the daddy 's left temple . |