Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 2 | In 1938 they moved in to take control of Denham Studios . |
| 3 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 4 | Once incorporated into Muscovy , the Ukraine radiated deeply unsettling currents of thought . |
| 5 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 6 | Later Rose also took charge of St James 's Park across the Mall . |
| 7 | He left active political life for six months and then bounced back to become leader of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | THE market bounced back following publication of the Treasury report which painted a more optimistic picture of the state of the economy . |
| 9 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 10 | He said he tried previously to warn MacQuillan of the risks he was running . |
| 11 | As the royal troops moved forward to take possession of the battlefield , littered with discarded weapons and the dead and wounded , Cumberland despatched a messenger to HMS Gibraltar , in the Moray Firth , for biscuits and cheese , rum and brandy for his victorious but hungry troops . |
| 12 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd only gone part of the way when I collided with Dad . |
| 14 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 15 | They 'd all got loads of money . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 17 | The umpire , who 'd finally got control of his pony , gave Rutshire a penalty . |
| 18 | If Vecchi killed Mahoney , as seemed fairly certain , he 'd already got hold of whatever was necessary to keep up the blackmail of Laura Channing . |
| 19 | I 'd momentarily lost sight of what a fast worker you are . ’ |
| 20 | Water companies advised not to report breaches of EC rules on pesticides in drinking water . |
| 21 | Surely Jake deserved a wife precisely like Janice — the gold-digger he 'd always accused Shiona of being . |
| 22 | But he 'd still got hold of it . |
| 23 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 24 | And it was her second car that she 'd ever had sort of thing . |
| 25 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 26 | He was asked why he 'd later dumped lengths of pipe at nearby Slade Quarry and then twice lied to police about it . |
| 27 | The former study compared carefully matched samples of British , French , and German factories , and having held as constant as possible factors such as size of enterprise , technology , and the firm 's environment , discovered substantial differences in the way work was organised in the three countries , concluding that these could best be accounted for by features of each nation 's culture , and in particular its educational and occupational structures . |
| 28 | Mutations in the D-stem and/or the variable loop in tRNA Asp caused drastically decreased levels of m 1 G37 , Q34 , manQ34 and Ψ40 in the anticodon loop/stem , while the m 2 2G6 formation was unaffected and the rate of m 5 C49-formation was enhanced . |
| 29 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 30 | The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow , but never spoke to Gabriel . |