Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Falkenhayn never attempted to break through the enemy lines — so far the sole tactic attempted by both sides — but planned rather to bleed France white by attacking that which the French nation would not tolerate being taken . |
| 2 | Having designed the Commodore International Ltd PET Personal Electronic Transactor , and moved on to found Sirius Inc , later Victor Technologies Inc until he was caught out when the world discovered that ‘ runs MS-DOS ’ did n't mean ‘ IBM-compatible ’ , Chuck Peddle hopes that he 'll soon be back with a bang . |
| 3 | Auditors Price Waterhouse have been revealed by the long-awaited Bingham report as concerned accountants , who tried desperately to keep BCCI afloat . |
| 4 | Rites of passage designed solely to make transition bearable , he wrote . |
| 5 | Catherine tried hard to persuade Isabella that Heathcliff was not worth loving , but poor Isabella was jealous of Catherine 's relationship with Heathcliff and would not listen . |
| 6 | Childebert I and Chlothar I ensured that Chlodomer 's sons did not succeed their father , and they tried hard to exclude Theudebert I from the throne . |
| 7 | DERRY City recorded their first win in four competitive games when they defeated newly promoted Monaghan United at the Brandywell last night to qualify for a quarter-final League Cup clash with Waterford United . |
| 8 | The explanation for the delayed start is that the Rugby Union and the BBC agreed not to make Rugby Special overlap with Sunday Grandstand . |
| 9 | Well you 'd better see Mark first and and let them have them back . |
| 10 | I was going to take them , I was going to take them , and I said , Oh I 'd better , I 'd better see Dr first . |
| 11 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 12 | He 'd only got pages 1 to 8 , and the corresponding ones at the back . |
| 13 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 14 | If you want to — ’ Sue turned back to give Sylvia some unnecessary help with her food . |
| 15 | He determined not to give Gina any housekeeping this week to make up for his losses . |
| 16 | That 's how we got it right and that 's how it finished up taking $180 million worldwide . |
| 17 | Goma signed up to support Charter 77 , but very few other Romanians , and certainly fewer still of his fellow intellectuals , took the risk of publicly associating themselves with the critics of the fraternal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia . |
| 18 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 19 | ‘ I decided not to play rugby this term . |
| 20 | A FINANCIER who made a billion when the pound collapsed yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 21 | Hibernian lost an early goal then hit back to beat Falkirk 3–2 . |
| 22 | He then went on to open Deakin Electrical Supplies ' new premises in Old Colwyn , where he stressed the importance of established companies growing and the need for inward investment . |
| 23 | In the semi-finals Miss Lockhart , very much a hard hitting baseline player , went on to defeat No. 3 seed Lindsay Nimmo in a very close battle , while Nina Topper defeated Maggie Laughton 7–5 6–2 . |
| 24 | Schofield won a long and taxing three setter , 6–3 , 4–6 , 7–6 , and went on to defeat Cowan 6–4 , 6–4 in the final . |
| 25 | Watched by the players from Holywood — who later went on to beat Annadale 6–2 to strengthen their title credentials — Garvey started tentatively , fell behind early on and were then left to chase it . |
| 26 | Britain went on to beat Israel 4–1 at Eastbourne to regain their World Group status and Bates added : ‘ I was playing number two to John Lloyd in singles and that was great for me . ’ |
| 27 | Made for only $171,000 it went on to gross $8 million in the US . |
| 28 | Rosemary said gently , and went on to shake Leith some more . |
| 29 | Peregrine and Charles sped down to join spectators all of whom knew the difficulties presented by first steps in skiing , and who were now gathering to watch their less proficient comrades make fools of themselves . |
| 30 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |