Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Blake was splashed with water he realized that many of the people had come to help put out the fire . |
| 2 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 3 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 4 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 5 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 6 | A government communiqué was also reported to have ruled out the possibility of FARC and ELN delegates being allowed to sit in the new Constituent Assembly to be elected in December . |
| 7 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 8 | Office supplier Nobo Group enjoyed a 15 point jump to 92p , compliments of James Capel , who were reported to have put out a ‘ buy ’ recommendation . |
| 9 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 10 | Four people sustained minor injuries and the van burst into flames ; the two people believed to have carried out the attack , however , escaped on a motorbike . |
| 11 | We also hope to have started up the ‘ community club ’ by the time of the JFIT conference . |
| 12 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 13 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 14 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 15 | He seemed to have taken on a new lease of life . |
| 16 | The evening visit of Hilary Seymour-Strachey seemed to have taken on a very different character to the afternoon one of his brother and sister-in-law . |
| 17 | The familiar song seemed to have taken on an extraordinarily personal message for her . |
| 18 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 19 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 20 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 21 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 22 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 23 | Police investigating the accident in which Leslie Crowther was critically injured have ruled out a mechanical failure as a possible cause . |
| 24 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 25 | The cash will be used to help set up a family action centre on the estate and give young people the opportunity to improve their future . |
| 26 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 27 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 28 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 29 | The left-wing Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) claimed to have carried out the killing , but police security experts stated that the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group ( Sendero Luminoso ) was probably responsible . |
| 30 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |