Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 2 | Mr Nathan said that once he was jailed , members of the Knesset planned to try to call a special session . |
| 3 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that , in the expectations-augmented Phillips curve , Friedman had assigned to aggregate demand a prominent , independent and direct role , summarized in the magnitude of f(U) , in determining the actual rate of inflation . |
| 5 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 6 | If it is possible , I want to continue to build a lasting basis for US-Soviet co-operation , for a more peaceful future for all mankind . |
| 7 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 8 | Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors . |
| 9 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 10 | We only want to try to run a straight line through a cloud of data points if the relationship looks linear . |
| 11 | Adding two hours to the period within which night visits may be claimed has caused a clear rise in claims , and this accounts for most , but not all , of the increase observed since the 1990 contract . |
| 12 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 13 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 14 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 15 | She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here . |
| 16 | ( ii ) Teachers should explain how Standard English has come to have a wide social and geographical currency and to be the form of English most frequently used on formal , public occasions and in writing . |
| 17 | Sir John enjoyed the Thatcher party ; Sir Denys has suffered a Major hangover . |
| 18 | Shortly thereafter , KPMG will notify the party its client has selected to negotiate an executed purchase agreement . |
| 19 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 20 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 21 | In general , BC 's stewardship of the land is poor , with areas in which it has operated having a depressed and unkept appearance . |
| 22 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 23 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 24 | Ollier and Pain ( 1981 ) consider an interesting case of an apparent diapir of gneiss that has risen to create a major domal landform . |
| 25 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 26 | JETTAIR , the Liverpool company aiming to reestablish air links between the city and London , has applied to operate an extra route to Gatwick . |
| 27 | THE GOVERNMENT has moved to defuse a growing row over its plan to introduce foreign language teaching for all Scottish primary pupils . |
| 28 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
| 29 | Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown has threatened to sue an American television network over reports that , while Governor of California , he threw parties where marijuana and cocaine where used . |
| 30 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |