Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 2 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 3 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 4 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 5 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |
| 6 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 7 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 8 | Trailing 18–17 , Fox denied the Lions victory with a kick from more than 40 yards that wiped out a magnificent kicking effort by Lions captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 9 | Trailing 18–17 , Fox denied the Lions victory with a kick from more than 40 yards that wiped out a magnificent kicking effort by Lions captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 10 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 11 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 12 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 13 | One of the most important steps for the complete colonization of the land was the evolution of herbivorous ( plant-eating ) reptiles , tapping a prolific and nourishing source of food that opened up a new dimension to the ‘ food chain' . |
| 14 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 15 | It was Bob Dwyer 's quality machine that mowed down a pathetic Wales 18 months ago , a staggering 63–6 blitzing in Brisbane . |
| 16 | She had found the tennis courts and the machine that served up a constant succession of tennis balls . |
| 17 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 18 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 19 | And when her tears mixed with the salty tears that fell down the great beast 's cheek , the spell was released , and he stood before her , a golden-haired young man in hunting-costume . |
| 20 | They finally chose the agency that dreamed up a well-known series of ads that appealed to a deeply buried vein of female exhibitionism : ‘ I dreamed I stopped the traffic in my Maidenform Bra ’ ( she wore nothing else ) . |
| 21 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 22 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 23 | who , who was it that brought down the human race ? |
| 24 | Sean , his sister Andrew ( p59 ) and Bruce Smith briefly hosted The Hot Sty , a London club that offered up an eclectic and inspiring mix . |
| 25 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 26 | The sky thundered , followed quickly by a crack of lightning that lit up the whole sky . |
| 27 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 28 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 29 | Next day we followed a faint path that continued up a steep-sided valley towards the crater . |
| 30 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |