Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that Mr Radley 's word was his bond , that judge gladly accepted the offer . |
| 2 | In summary , bFGF administered orally or given parenterally accelerated the healing of acetic acid induced gastric ulcers in rats . |
| 3 | Pick in brought an action against the Board , claiming that by virtue of s. 259 he was the owner of that land to mid-track . |
| 4 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 5 | Remove from OPEN and place on CLOSED a node n for which f is minimum . |
| 6 | The 386SX machine Xtradrive was installed on showed no tendency to run Windows any the slower — in fact there seemed to be a positive speed benefit , which could only be due to the quicker load times compressed files must enjoy . |
| 7 | Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and wheys , along came a spider , along came a , no I not say along came a spider and sat down beside her , along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away |
| 8 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 9 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 10 | Mainstream criticism of Distant Voices , Still Lives constantly referred the film both to art in general and to particular works of art . |
| 11 | Fascinated by this display , Wong Long captured the mantis and took it home with him . |
| 12 | So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial . |
| 13 | Nakasone thus hijacked the concept of ‘ Japanese ’ for his private — or rather , class — definition . |
| 14 | Sailors returning home stuck a pineapple or two on their gateposts to tell the community they were back and welcomed visitors . |
| 15 | This is how one of the more sceptical psychiatrists involved later described the patient 's case : ‘ I must admit that such a remarkable response has been a surprise to me . |
| 16 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 17 | And villagers walking past gave the gathering a wide berth , and spat in disgust with disparaging comments . |
| 18 | The Campaign Against Drinking and Driving also condemned the sentence , as did the back-bench Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens , who called it derisory . |
| 19 | Both Noah and Forget also offered the suggestion that perhaps the Americans had been caught napping because they were over confident . |
| 20 | As one of the innocent men remarked outside court : ‘ Much more would have come out had the trial continued . ’ |
| 21 | The readership questionnaire recently carried out raised a lot of comments ( of which more in the next issue ) . |
| 22 | However , on another occasion , Snowden explained that his free-trade and budgetary views had not changed but that the surplus they had earned now permitted the nation to financially support ‘ Lloyd George 's New Deal ’ . |
| 23 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 24 | He finished mopping then carried the towel to the basin in the corner and dropped it in . |
| 25 | Into a pattern of military administration which may appear deceptively well organised there stepped a class of soldier , the mercenary , whose presence to people of the late Middle Ages meant destruction and disorder . |
| 26 | Because English law has nowhere declared the principle as a fundamental one , rather than a mere residual one ( as in Woolmington ) , legislators have felt free to heap burdens on defendants , the Public Order Act 1986 being a prime example in recent times ( see [ 1987 ] Crim.L.R. 153 ) . |
| 27 | The approach to the city with the scriptural shouts evidently attracted the attention of the Passover crowds already in the city , as well as the disapproval of the religious leaders of the nation , to whose critical remarks Jesus retorted : ‘ If these should be silent even the huge stones of the Temple walls would cry out . ’ |
| 28 | ISU photographs certainly disproved the myth once and for all — yes , Tom did have hair ! ! |
| 29 | When the recent IWC annual meeting voted to ban all commercial whaling ( 25 for , 7 against ) the Japanese delegation and press predictably condemned the decision . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , those waiting for the chance to go soon passed the age of seventeen , the upper limit for Youth Allyah emigration visas . |