Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 3 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 4 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 5 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 6 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 7 | To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 9 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 10 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 11 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 12 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 13 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 14 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 15 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 16 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 17 | A management group of specialists ( including representatives of the Countryside Council for Wales , Dyfed Wildlife Trust , Otter Project Wales and RSPB Wales ) helped draw up the initial conservation plan and now guides all aspects of the management and monitoring programme . |
| 18 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 19 | Sitting behind the wheel of the Lagonda , he tried to understand why the old man had discouraged him . |
| 20 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 21 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 22 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 23 | And it was the arrival of one of the men who had denied them victory in the past that helped to spark off the renewed challenge in 1993 . |
| 24 | This echoes the general case made by Rychner for variation between closely related fabliau texts to be explicable on the basis of different intended audiences , although van den Boogard actually contradicted Rychner 's specific findings on the Anglo-Norman fabliaux , which Rychner found to represent only the common degeneration typical of " " transmission memorielle " " . |
| 25 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 26 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 27 | Gale-force winds helped to break up the 40-km oil slick , reducing the impact of what was initially reported as a massive environmental disaster , although oil continued to seep out of the sunken vessel . |
| 28 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 29 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 30 | During talks with former leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe and with leading industrial figures , Zou promised to improve further the domestic environment for foreign investment and said that China 's repayment of its foreign debt was guaranteed , adding that the lifting of martial law on Jan. 11 was a sign of stability . |