Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he sought to remain neutral during the English civil war , commissioners empowered by Parliament took control of the colony in 1652 and continued to administer Maryland until Oliver Cromwell restored Calvert 's proprietary rights in 1657 . |
| 2 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 3 | Gemerek 's resignation as OKP leader and the election of Gil on Nov. 9 reflected the internal divisions within the group between supporters of Mazowiecki ( including Geremek ) and those of Walesa , who was backed by Gil , although he promised to remain impartial during the election campaign . |
| 4 | She looked across and tried to appear careless about the whole thing . |
| 5 | The sea-beet Steve used grows wild round the shores of Britain : collect it at this time of year from a clean dune . |
| 6 | That 's right , we defended very well , we what we tried to do continued from the Oldham game was stop their back four playing . |
| 7 | Green 's playtime involved getting pissed with the locals during leisurely lock-ins in the village pub , and intentionally losing touch with the big bad world of the music business . |
| 8 | It would be the last straw if her husband tried to get romantic at the wrong time of the month . |
| 9 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 10 | Melges tried to make light of the issue : ‘ If the question is ‘ Is it difficult for us to make a decision ’ , the answer is ‘ Sometimes yes , sometimes no ’ . ’ |
| 11 | She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . |
| 12 | Back at the lodge they tried to make light of the experience . |
| 13 | or tried to cut loose from the coils of law . |
| 14 | Further east , Bulgaria eventually became firmly attached to the Byzantine church , but in the 860s Louis the German , king of the East Franks , even tried to become involved in the Bulgarian conversion . |
| 15 | In the dark office the human awoke , mooed for a while , and tried to jerk free of the cobweb of wires that held it down . |
| 16 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 17 | The model might be represented thus : unc where S = sales level to be optimised Tvad = television advertising Psad = press advertising Slsfce = Salesforce size and deployment Slsfcecomm = sales commission paid to salesforce Dsincve = distributor discounts and incentives C = factors assumed to remain constant for the purpose of the exercise . |
| 18 | The projection may be linear or exponential , or may incorporate more complex calculations which make allowance for variation in the basic parameters assumed to remain constant in the simpler equations . |
| 19 | Okay well Claire seemed to go straight for the answer straight , right away . |
| 20 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 21 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid I lost my temper and said if he 'd fallen foul of the IRA it bloody well served him right for supporting them . ’ |
| 23 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 24 | After all the pressure , United looked good for a win , but then with just 5 minutes to go , they cracked . |
| 25 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 26 | He 'd shot hand-held at a fifteenth of a second at f4.5 . " |
| 27 | ‘ I had a call from 20th Century Fox — I 'd done Sleeping With The Enemy for them — and arranged to meet the director in Atlanta . |
| 28 | He said he 'd felt awful about the abortion last time , and he wanted to keep this one and marry me and start again . ’ |
| 29 | The child of a nonconformist father learnt to drink deep of the Catholic tradition . |
| 30 | Rohan 's voice seemed to reach Sabine from a great distance . |