Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 2 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 3 | It is while the caretaker was in the science and humanities wing he turned on the light which caused the college to explode . |
| 4 | Their aim was to ensure that contracts were given and policies enacted which favoured their interests in making profits . |
| 5 | On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent . |
| 6 | Until then , colleagues and readers thought she had been happily married to the man she always referred affectionately to as Proopsie . |
| 7 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 8 | He took an interest in it from a scientific point of view and his etchings and aquatints show he had a clear understanding of different types of cloud formation and their associated weather . |
| 9 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
| 10 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 11 | Mr Molloy had a distant relative in Sinn Fein , the IRA 's political wing , but family and friends insisted he had no time for the politics of violence . |
| 12 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 13 | The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above . |
| 14 | Their progress was hampered by the vast crowds and the cars that thronged what would normally have been a clear area but people soon scattered from their path as with lights flashing and sirens wailing they forged ahead . |
| 15 | The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court . |
| 16 | Only a third of 13 and 14-year-olds said they had received facts on contraception . |
| 17 | Within four hours it was all over , and the following morning thousands of officers and men found themselves incarcerated in the Cittadella , the great sixteenth-century fortress built by the Farnese on the outskirts of the city . |
| 18 | Accordingly some have radical developments recently completed , on hand or in the pipeline , and others wish they had . |
| 19 | For a long time his death was concealed from her ; her mother and others told her had gone to Europe to be cured . |
| 20 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 21 | In other ‘ polygenic ’ diseases , such as insulin dependent diabetes mellitus , the HLA system has now been extensively studied at the molecular level and alleles identified which determined both disease susceptibility and restance . |
| 22 | The machine controls caused power to be applied and consequences to occur which resulted in changed readings on the instruments . |
| 23 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 24 | As the earth and stones landed they formed Blakey Topping . |
| 25 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 26 | But friends believe she had had enough of the relentless pressure of the twice-weekly programme . |
| 27 | But friends say they found the watch hours earlier . |
| 28 | Police say there were rumours in the village that he had a large sum , but friends say he kept it all in bank and building society accounts . |
| 29 | But police say they had to act quickly to protect staff and shoppers . |
| 30 | A solicitor says that , technically , he DID act outside the law , but police say he did the right thing . |