Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 2 | ‘ So you got to try out a few of these nice new cars yourself . ’ |
| 3 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 4 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 5 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 6 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 7 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 8 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 9 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 10 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
| 11 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 12 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 13 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 14 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 15 | POLICE have appealed for information in a bid to identify an elderly woman found wandering along a busy road . |
| 16 | She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867 . |
| 17 | Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face . |
| 18 | If this small group tried to draw up a new market contract , bargaining would be protracted because of the known absence of alternative partners . |
| 19 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 20 | Phoebe tried to build up a little guilt about his wife but failed to do so . |
| 21 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 22 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 23 | Then Uncle Fred moved to take over a bigger camp for displaced persons at Bideford . |
| 24 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 25 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 26 | All of these factors taken together helped to bring about a national sense of economic and political malaise . |
| 27 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 28 | As governor of the island of Española , Colon ordered the hands to be struck off any native who failed to render up a quarterly tribute of gold or 25 pounds of spun cotton . |
| 29 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 30 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |