Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 2 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
| 3 | During the days , the various sections met to conduct their own meetings , hearing papers from both eminent and unknown men of science . |
| 4 | ‘ Let's say we agreed to go our separate ways . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We agreed to go our own ways a year ago . |
| 6 | Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements . |
| 7 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 8 | Meredith tried to gather her confused thoughts together . |
| 9 | Also concurrent with this was the establishing of a mode , or even tradition , of working for feminist artists , which involved using their own bodies ( although with widely varying intentions and political positions ) — either producing images , or through performance or video . |
| 10 | She scrutinised the spare figure before her in crumpled navy-blue suit and silk tie , and tried to penetrate his sunken eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , Gina ? ’ he prompted again softly as she tried to arrange her jumbled thoughts to give a reason without betraying how deeply hurt she felt . |
| 12 | I looked at Inspector Drew for several seconds while I tried to marshal my tumbling thoughts . |
| 13 | One is wet sieved as above , and both the mud and sand fractions dried and weighed to establish their relative proportions . |
| 14 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'll make it , ’ Bodie said , and strained to catch her dying words . |
| 16 | So they tried to revive their warlike spirits , while the women rubbed and slapped their heavy limbs and applied ointments to the survivors ' burns and bruises . |
| 17 | Further , managers tried to consolidate their new powers by putting the new controls well beyond the reach of any shop-floor worker — on the other side of the factory , where only managers and engineers were permitted . |
| 18 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 19 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 20 | I stopped writing my own poems . |
| 21 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 22 | Some popes of a militant disposition , such as the great German reformer Pope Leo IX , tried to lead their own armies to war , but this nearly always ended in disaster . |
| 23 | Shannon tried to resist his plundering lips , tried to pull her face away , but she could n't think straight , could n't clear the confusion fogging her mind . |
| 24 | He adds for good measure that the public-sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts . |
| 25 | In recognition of the support which the majority of the Jewish aristocracy had given him , Antiochus III tried to help his new subjects . |
| 26 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 27 | The Daily Mirror tried to organise its own weapons amnesty for flick-knives , coshes , bicycle-chains and knuckle-dusters . |
| 28 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 29 | The next few weeks were busy one for all the Pack and their mothers , who baked and stitched and sewed , and listened to recitations and lines from plays that were to be performed by the Brownies , and answered their questions about this , that and the other , and tried to put their sudden doubts and fears at rest . |
| 30 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |