Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Mr Ciampi , the Bank of Italy failed to curb the politicians ' profligacy , but it never gave up trying . |
| 2 | Almost immediately , Martin Trench fired home Mayo 's goal and three points from Joe Henry helped to consolidate the westerners ' effort . |
| 3 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 4 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
| 5 | A week 's filming at a sandpit near Leighton Buzzard , in Bedfordshire , where the Victors tried to destroy the Bats ' car , was beset with difficulties when strong winds constantly filled actors ' and technicians ' eyes with sand , but the scenes were eventually completed to everyone 's satisfaction . |
| 6 | They helped dig the badgers ' new home … there were also a few young recruits on hand to help with the spadework . |
| 7 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
| 8 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
| 9 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 10 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 11 | Visick grading seemed to enhance the patients ' subjective estimation of postoperative symptoms . |
| 12 | Special guests confirmed to support the Levs ' at the sold-out Birmingham Atrium Hall shows are African Headcharge and Senser , and Chumbawamba and the Moonflowers . |
| 13 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
| 14 | Colonial administrators began to restrict the natives ' access to species that could be killed for food by establishing reserves where hunting was only permitted under licence . |
| 15 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 16 | As the commentator began to analyse the Yankees ' seasonal batting averages Graham looked around slowly at the tranquillity of his surroundings . |
| 17 | SIMON PARKE , whose selection for England in the World Championships was dogged by controversy , began to repay the selectors ' faith as he beat the Canadian No. 1 , Sabir Butt , and the effects of influenza here yesterday , writes Richard Eaton from Kuala Lumpur . |
| 18 | The Doctor returned to the device behind the wall hanging , and began to readjust the mirrors ' alignment . |
| 19 | " We started falling out over it , so we decided to form a tenants ' movement , " one of the tenants told me . |
| 20 | Shelley started sorting the patients ' cards into order , and wonderered why she felt a little hurt at the thought of Victoria coming and going at the Casa Madrid . |
| 21 | Those who persisted discovered the drives ' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver . |
| 22 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 23 | By October 1921 , Her Majesty 's diary records that she ‘ went to see the Dolls ' House which Sir Edwin Lutyens and the British artists are giving me and are decorating for me … |
| 24 | Sindy bleeped in confusion and went to dredge the supplies ' cupboards . |
| 25 | The problem , however , was that they kept blaming the tenants ' ’ lifestyle ’ for the dampness , refused to accept responsibility and spent unknown amounts of money treating the symptoms by using chemical washes to try and kill the fungus . |
| 26 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 27 | MITI 's attempts at consolidation failed to overcome the firms ' competitive attitude ( indicating limitations to MITI 's ‘ dominance ’ ) . |
| 28 | The increase in juvenile crime throughout the 1970s appeared to confirm the critics ' views . |
| 29 | Only 24 hours earlier conference delegates voted to reduce the unions ' voting strength . |
| 30 | We did have a boys ' night out with Tim Cooper of the Evening Standard . |