Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 2 | The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings . |
| 3 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 4 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 5 | She stopped and sucked in a breath . |
| 6 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 7 | Mr Farrell , of Ross-on-Wye , Hereford and Worcester , showed them where he saw the car parked and pointed out a skid mark on the hard shoulder . |
| 8 | Laura stooped and picked up a gym shoe half buried in the mud . |
| 9 | He stooped and held up a fairly modern brief-case of the sort office workers are said to carry their sandwiches in . |
| 10 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 11 | Ian Whelpton technical manager to Clynol , who manufacture perms , believes it should only be permed when twisted and wound around a rod . |
| 12 | The frogs are collected and cooked over a fire until the poisonous , milky skin secretions appear ; these are then scraped on to the weapons . |
| 13 | Dimly she was aware that de Raimes was being carried by two men , that she was being prodded and pushed down a flight of stairs . |
| 14 | One of the members went one better by telling us she had made a shadow pleated skirt which , by mistake , was put into the ‘ whites ’ wash and finished up a quarter of its original size , ruined beyond restoration — so everyone though . |
| 15 | A man has appeared in court charged with attempting to murder a couple who were kidnapped and pushed over a cliff in a burning car . |
| 16 | A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted . |
| 17 | Racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters are also inevitably suffused with elements of sexual and class difference and therefore fractured and criss-crossed around a number of axes and identities . |
| 18 | All she got for her pains was a slight smile but no verbal reply as with efficient ease he filled and switched on a percolator . |
| 19 | He agreed and thought up a device . |
| 20 | Dickie relented and pulled out a packet of mints from his pocket . |
| 21 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 23 | There are many tests of children 's language which have been developed and marketed over a number of years . |
| 24 | Finally she turned and disappeared down a short flight of stairs . |
| 25 | She turned and switched on a lamp . |
| 26 | ‘ We just started a band going and put up a notice looking for a female singer so Dolores turned up . ’ |
| 27 | Marie sighed and pulled out a dining-chair from under the table . |
| 28 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 29 | Maggie gave him a nudge as a rather flustered man pushed his way to the front of the people waiting and held up a placard — ‘ Señorita Howard ’ . |
| 30 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |