Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | B. Managers tried to find the best places for iron and steel works , in order to keep transport costs as low as possible . |
| 32 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |
| 33 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 34 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 35 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 36 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 37 | Her back shrieked , and when she bent to serve the late-night customers with their breath of beer and Cinzano , her head swam . |
| 38 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 39 | The Government promised to consult the disabled persons transport advisory committee on the introduction of new regulations that would result in better standards of accessibility to buses for the handicapped and the disabled . |
| 40 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 41 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 42 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 43 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 44 | A food co-op which tried to replace the burned-out shops has been closed after several break-ins , and even the drop-in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . |
| 45 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 46 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 47 | My sister took a bit of stick at first , too , and although she 's two years younger than me and was in a different class , we stuck together at break times and tried to avoid the sneering eyes . |
| 48 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 49 | We tried to identify the main features of current best practice in English by describing classrooms where , individually and collaboratively , pupils are seen : |
| 50 | Like looters after a big raid who tried to steal the mangled possessions of shattered houses . |
| 51 | Medicare provided those over 65 with 80% of the fees for hospital treatment ; Medicaid helped to cover the medical expenses of the poor . |
| 52 | After a while the British press stopped reporting the Indian gifts out of sheer embarrassment . |
| 53 | Intent on trying not to forget what had brought her marching into his room , she tried to stoke the fading embers of her rage . |
| 54 | Opposition members tried to persuade the ruling Tories to push up spending to the Government-imposed limit and put extra cash towards economic development and jobs . |
| 55 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 56 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 57 | The Colonel slashed with his riding crop as he tried to disentangle the trapped limbers . |
| 58 | The air on the street was so thick and enervating that the gawpers who tried to glimpse the famous faces behind the tinted windows and security grilles moved in slow motion . |
| 59 | Posing as tax-payers engaged in writing , film-making or oddball societies , we tried to enlist the honourable members in activities and causes close to their hearts . |
| 60 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |