Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 2 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 3 | Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker . |
| 4 | I am so particularly pleased with these , that I should feel much gratified by possessing a duplicate copy of each . |
| 5 | But a course which only consisted of getting the student on to the inside of one or more disciplines would not count as a course of higher education ; it would merely be a training in those disciplines . |
| 6 | Seated opposite each other , we naturally began by discussing the ‘ crisis ’ . |
| 7 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 8 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 9 | But his funds only ran to buying a Modigliani drawing . |
| 10 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 11 | For a while I got deep into The Coasters and The Platters and all this old doo-wop stuff , and that somehow led to writing a song for Tin Machine 's second album . |
| 12 | I did n't swamp the family with knitwear , I just concentrated on improving the quality and finish of the garments so that instead of being embarrassed by wearing ‘ Mum 's efforts ’ they were proud to wear them . |
| 13 | The Soviet press nevertheless refrained from describing the GCC as a military alliance and conceded that regional economic cooperation in the Gulf could be useful . |
| 14 | The educational role usually amounted to freeing the teacher from mundane classroom activities or carrying out instruction under the teacher 's guidance , whereas the para-professional role involved helping with physiotherapy and speech therapy exercises . |
| 15 | The bruiser sat by himself , drinking a hot toddy , and he hardly moved except to bring the glass to his lips . |
| 16 | Gary John Williams , 22 , of no fixed abode , appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with taking a vehicle without consent . |
| 17 | Oil giant Shell UK appeared in court at Birkenhead , Merseyside yesterday charged with polluting the River Mersey in the first major case brought by the new pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority . |
| 18 | Three workers from McDonalds restaurant in Newcastle 's Northumberland Street appeared in court yesterday charged with making a hoax bomb call to rivals Burger King . |
| 19 | Neil Newton , 26 , of Pierremont Crescent , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with possessing a controlled drug , intent to supply a controlled drug and handling stolen goods . |
| 20 | A MAN appeared in private at Dumfries Sheriff Court yesterday charged with assaulting a woman motorist on the A74 Glasgow-Carlisle road . |
| 21 | THREE men appeared in court yesterday charged with beating a man to death in Grangemouth . |
| 22 | They still believed in influencing the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Yet between 1933 and 1942 J. Arthur Rank put together a vertically-integrated film empire that was the nearest Britain ever came to emulating the great Hollywood studios . |
| 24 | On reflection he admits that the 1983 Ulster final against Donegal was probably the closest he ever came to capturing an elusive Ulster senior championship medal . |
| 25 | ‘ For the most part , the closest the citizens ever came to confronting the police on specific issues was when an occasional individual dominated the entire meeting to register a personal grievance . |
| 26 | He told friends he always believed in striking a happy medium . |
| 27 | British officials yesterday persisted in spreading the myth that the couple were sharing a room . |
| 28 | Although early on she sheepishly confessed to enjoying the visits , she did n't like the way the Twiggs expected her to call them Mom and Dad . |
| 29 | Howard always started by getting the 'keeper and back four right first , and he 's done that . |
| 30 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |