Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governor responded by crafting a bill that establishes 11 semi-autonomous boards across the state , one in each region , empowered to carry out the negotiations within a set of basic guidelines . |
| 2 | Critics of the Tirgu Mures report said that it failed to spell out the reasons for the outburst of hatred between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania , preferring instead to lay the blame on Ceausescu 's legacy , actions of the former Securitate political police , and disinformation on the part of extremists on both sides . |
| 3 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 4 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 5 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 6 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 7 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 8 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 9 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 10 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 11 | This involved costing up the advantages and disadvantages of each of the proposed courses of action and selecting the preferred option on the basis of the balance of each calculation . |
| 12 | But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible . |
| 13 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 14 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 15 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 16 | This involved looking up the ailments common to exotic animals in order to be prepared for any searching questions by the proprietor . |
| 17 | ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . ) |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 19 | During April the ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , moved to frustrate further the efforts of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to form a democratic government . |
| 20 | ‘ We tried to fit together the enigmas , of which there were a number . |
| 21 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 22 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 23 | Even when Alexia , who remained a young woman even as her hair silvered , tried to point out the strengths of his pieces he mentally tuned out . |
| 24 | In Nicosia 's Eoka museum , pictures of British troops when they tried to fight off the separatists . |
| 25 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |
| 26 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 27 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles . |
| 29 | She bent to plump up the cushions . |
| 30 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |