Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However such power and influence should have been balanced by checks built in to protect those falling foul of an individual BAT leader . |
| 2 | Just enough shoppers turned up to leave both sides of the Sunday-trading debate feeling vindicated . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ the fellow snapped , his lips curled back to reveal blackened stumps of teeth . |
| 4 | Whereas Rolle 's poetic understanding of spiritual life embodied in his English works makes them like flares sent up to illuminate dark ground , each a light but each separate , Hilton 's Scale brings into the daylight a carefully worked out map of spiritual life with each of the major stages interconnected . |
| 5 | Nineteen of the 23 Major Project schools of that time contained clear statements of aims to enhance the curriculum as a whole , although many schools went on to identify particular subjects or departments which required attention first . |
| 6 | And her next words went on to express this when she said to Aggie , ‘ Well , you can rest easy , Mrs Winkowski , your ward will be well looked after . |
| 7 | Yellow Victorian mansions , with their front gardens asphalted over to make yellow parking areas for the flatholders ' yellow cars . |
| 8 | But Barons came back to lead 4-3 at the end of the second and Tigers looked like they were heading for another defeat . |
| 9 | Happily , preservation groups stepped in to save some stock for posterity . |
| 10 | Other male relatives dropped in to offer last-minute words of advice , or simply wish the party well . |
| 11 | Dulles went on to form another of his much-favoured regional pacts — the Baghdad Pact ( 1955 ) , which included the USA , Britain , Iran , Iraq and Pakistan — to build up power around the Soviet defence perimeter . |
| 12 | The Schweppes Cup holders went on to score 24 points in 17 minutes . |
| 13 | Again on 15 May two 185 Squadron Hurricanes took off to cover 261 Squadron , Sgts . |
| 14 | While the keen ( but slightly damp ) experimenters went on to test different designs of paddle wheel , Ruth Aplin showed me some of the pupil 's science folders . |
| 15 | Other marches against racism were organized in many cities in the course of November , notably in Bonn on Nov. 14 when demonstrators came out to oppose any change of the Basic w'sgenerous asylum provisions and to urge stronger action to protect refugees . |
| 16 | And a pane of glass in the Old Trafford dressing room area was shattered as the Lancashire players came out to field some of the glass landed in England spinner Peter Such 's kit bag . |
| 17 | And a pane of glass in the Old Trafford dressing room area was shattered as the Lancashire players came out to field some of the glass landed in England spinner Peter Such 's kit bag . |
| 18 | On investigation , the speech of supposedly retarded New York ghetto youths turned out to have all of the qualities generally associated with logical thought — facility with complex propositions , meaningful sequence , rule recognition , syllogistic reasoning etc . |
| 19 | Friends stepped in to offer temporary residence , while the other fish were transferred in large , polythene bags and a baby bath to John 's back-up tank in the garage . |
| 20 | Friends rang round to remind each other of the vigil and colleagues rallied as many people as they could to come to St Bride 's . |
| 21 | Some of these entrepreneurs went on to form proper companies , one of which was the AERONautical Company of America — better known as AERONCA . |
| 22 | In 1777 a group of Korean scholars sat down to study some Catholic books which had arrived in Korea from Japan . |
| 23 | In the years that followed the developmentalists turned out to have most of the evidence on their side . |
| 24 | One reason for the previous misrepresentation of the logical abilities of such social groups is that the tests carried out to assess such abilities were unreliable both in method and in conception . |
| 25 | Police stood by to quell any pro-independence demos , but the day passed quietly . |
| 26 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 27 | As Vince Aletti , premier prophet of the scene , once wrote : ‘ Disco fetishised the break — the instrumental change that became a song 's pivot and peak — so records opened up to accommodate extended passages , musical movements that washed through the dancefloor like waves . |
| 28 | Skates went on to score three more after the interval , all from open play , with Gary Brown contributing two and Dominic Maguire converting a penalty stroke as Brooklands romped home 8-1 . |
| 29 | And the grooms went round to make sure she was in foal before he took the money . |
| 30 | The boys went off to say more prayers . |