Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 100 people , including a senior French Customs officer , were arrested after the Japanese failed to claim back VAT on high-fashion handbags bought in Paris . |
| 2 | The government tried to drive out inflation by announcing that it was prepared to exchange paper money for specie . |
| 3 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 4 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 5 | ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event . |
| 6 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 7 | To this end , all washing powders contain one or more chemicals called ‘ surfactants , ’ designed to lift out dirt from fabric and ‘ hold ’ it in the washing water . |
| 8 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 9 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 10 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 11 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 12 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 13 | In August 1988 the CME and Reuters agreed to open up Globex to other exchanges , MATIF , etc . |
| 14 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 15 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 16 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 17 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 18 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 19 | On June 26 1990 , the Labour front bench , led by Neil Kinnock , Jo Richardson and Harriet Harman , tabled an amendment to the embryo Bill , proposing a ‘ blacklist ’ of doctors and nurses who declined to carry out abortion on demand . |
| 20 | Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks . |
| 21 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 22 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 23 | She began to put on weight at almost every feed . |
| 24 | Upholstery became a separate trade , and seating began to put on weight in consequence . |
| 25 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 26 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 27 | He began to suck in air through his mouth , producing a gasping sound . |
| 28 | The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth . |
| 29 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |
| 30 | USL declined to reveal how ownership of the subsidiary is apportioned . |