Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weights are custom-made or ground down Roman coins ; one or two appear to be actual Byzantine weights , or imitations , indicating the extent of exchange networks in the later sixth and seventh centuries in Europe . |
| 2 | In between times he made nails , chains and tools or turned out spare parts for canal machinery . |
| 3 | Here vehicle access to the dwellings is via culs-de-sac which end in forecourts to garages , with houses directly adjacent or reached along short footpaths . |
| 4 | Government officials insisted that they were not going to build walls or put up barbed wire round the embassies . |
| 5 | Authorities that have been rate-capped and lost grant have had to cut services or put off planned improvements . |
| 6 | Conversely there were occasions when world oil production reached levels which could not be explained by known consumption forecasts , as IEA member governments established or topped up strategic stocks against the uncertainties of life , like the US government 's vast Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR ) . |
| 7 | The relief can be set against the investor 's other income in that tax year or carried back three years or carried forward . |
| 8 | For example , for much of the day we need to be able to repress or split off some feelings to enable us to concentrate or to use our intellects . |
| 9 | As homework we asked the women to keep a diary and initially to record everything they ate or drank over one week . |
| 10 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 11 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 12 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 13 | He and Pinsent designed the Renaissance-style library and laid out formal gardens at I Tatti in 1909–15 , and were invited in 1912 to make alterations to the historic Villa Medici at Fiesole by its owner , the recently widowed Lady Sybil Cutting . |
| 14 | Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli . |
| 15 | It showed when he was upset when he was mocked by Peter Hain and attacked over Spitting Image at Questions earlier this week . |
| 16 | In that period of decentralized feudalism , one clan ( the Tokugawa ) usurped the authority of the Emperor and ruled over other clans within a structure which prohibited almost all contact with the outside world . |
| 17 | The Labour Party ceased to contest by-elections and ruled out extra-Parliamentary agitation of any kind as incompatible with its membership of the Government . |
| 18 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 19 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 20 | NIGEL JEMSON last night shrugged aside the most embarrassing moment of his career and ruled out any showdown with Trevor Francis . |
| 21 | To prepare for the role she followed the Method actors and sought out suburban wives on Long Island . |
| 22 | While other families played Monopoly and Mah Jong , we sat round the fire , Sunday evenings after supper , and read out old leaders from The Times in turn . |
| 23 | They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories . |
| 24 | Pepita bent back down to her work and checked off another crate of bananas that would be shipped to lands she had never seen and would never see . |
| 25 | Farnham , on the other hand , gave us four weeks and sold out two months before opening night , for the whole run . |
| 26 | As she watched , the tall thin man in the butcher 's apron raised the cleaver once again and lopped off another part of the leg . |
| 27 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 28 | He won the award for the regular habitat improvements made on his 1,680 acre property , where he and his keeper alan Smith four years ago gave up rearing pheasants , and built up wild birds , both pheasants and partridges , which have gone from strength to strength . |
| 29 | I actually talked to my fellow students and built up some relations with people , which , if not quite friendships , at least satisfied the definition of acquaintance . |
| 30 | They were given a sumptuous tea and invited back any time they felt like coming . |