Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive .
2 I have to say that I was a little disappointed at first when mine failed to absorb all the rain from a really wet windscreen , but I found that when held edge-on , this handy , blue tool proved most effective at scraping the snow and ice from my car .
3 You got to hide all the booze away here .
4 She sought to redress both the neglect by historians of " changes in the nature of demand " and their concentration on labour as a factor of production rather than as constituting " the major portion of the consuming public " .
5 I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows .
6 I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows .
7 We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these .
8 And we got to know all the people there .
9 ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’
10 Conversation immediately broke out again , while each lady tried to recollect all the MacLeans that she knew .
11 He called for new elections and promised to replace half the Cabinet .
12 When the mistake was discovered , they tried to put all the blame onto the innocent parties — the importers and the farmers — who have been landed with these cattle .
13 In order to gain admittance and nurse his wounds , Bothwell had to strike a deal which involved letting all the Elliots go free .
14 I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child .
15 She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time .
16 And when your treachery to your clan was discovered , you tried to lay all the blame on your man , and left him , betraying him also .
17 A task which involved organising all the Sunday services , Sunday school and several weeknight activities .
18 ‘ We tried to recover all the pieces that we could and still hope to recover more parts , ’ Kermit said .
19 Following the advice , the British runner tried to make all the running .
20 She promised to make all the arrangements , including the hiring of as many buses as she could find .
21 Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ?
22 We 'd heard all the warnings ; knew its nicknames .
23 This port , founded as late as 1 130 , very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town .
24 Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed
25 I wonder if he 'd carried all the information
26 Then he remembered the red lozenges he 'd sucked all the way in the car .
27 As the BMW finally drove away they all let go at once , releasing an answering roar that seemed to come all the way from her sex and anus , rippling up her spine and out of her gaping mouth .
28 Sloth faeces , estimated to contain half the leaf material , are returned to the ground around the trees : the three-toed sloth actually buries them !
29 He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’
30 Within the hour we 'd prepared all the equipment and stored the Harris 's hawk in the back of the Land Rover , and we were on our way .
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