Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 2 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
| 3 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 4 | Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these . |
| 5 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 6 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 7 | Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers . |
| 8 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 9 | The courts first began to take obscenity seriously as a result of private prosecutions brought in the early nineteenth century by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , dubbed by Sydney Smith " a society for suppressing the vices of those whose incomes do not exceed £500 per annum " . |
| 10 | In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà . |
| 11 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 12 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 13 | ‘ As far as I am concerned , madame , the sooner we get our affairs sorted out the better . |
| 14 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
| 15 | Erm , the salmon pages set out the proposed strategy to meet those guidelines , and as I say , we 'll pick those up as we move through . |
| 16 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 17 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 18 | They the the leads carried out the proper procedure , what 's laid down for them . |
| 19 | Priscilla Buxton recounted how four MPs brought in the huge rolls of the ladies ' petition of 1833 and ‘ heaved it on to the table among loud laughing and cheers . |
| 20 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 21 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 22 | Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche . |
| 23 | Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them . |
| 24 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 25 | In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all . |
| 26 | Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) . |
| 27 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 29 | Other companies reluctantly followed suit , though it was not until 1910 that the Great Western Railway phased out the last of its second-class carriages . |
| 30 | The commotion brought in the new duty officer , a tall and muscular young lieutenant with a sad , world-weary face . |