Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all produce rugs to order , with strict criteria laid down to govern the sizes , colours , designs and qualities . |
| 2 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 3 | At one stage , the exhibition hall got so crowded the doors had to be closed . |
| 4 | The truth is that Holland were not Holland last night , just a raw collection drafted in to complement the remnants of their regular side . |
| 5 | Eventually we got together to devise the patents and scale up the process . ’ |
| 6 | Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year . |
| 7 | The next morning , in solemn cavalcade , James , King of Cyprus rode in to receive the keys of his city , and the flag of St George and the Dragon was dropped from the walls . |
| 8 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 9 | But the Peak Park moved swiftly to remove the anti-police slogans and other symbols . |
| 10 | At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges . |
| 11 | Polly glanced at the compass , tried desperately to imprint the numbers on a brain that seemed to have gone completely blank , then looked round at him . |
| 12 | The mother tried desperately to pack the remains of the afternoons tea back into her box . |
| 13 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 14 | Proast dithered over accepting the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary . |
| 15 | Theodora and the Major moved off to collect the horses from the loose boxes at the north end of the yard . |
| 16 | Now her team offers a design service for private gardens or public spaces — tailored carefully to suit the needs of both client and site . |
| 17 | The Conservatives have not experienced being in minority government at all this century , although after the election of February 1974 , Edward Heath tried unsuccessfully to entice the Liberals into coalition . |
| 18 | With two rooms used up holding the heavies , the bedroom 's all that is left . |
| 19 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 20 | It had a triple train-shed , designed symbolically to perpetuate the identities of the three regions formerly served by the three redundant terminals . |
| 21 | The path pursued particularly matched the clergy 's vision of the profanity of towns and sacrality of rural life . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the SFC moved immediately to impose the reforms . |
| 23 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
| 24 | How can the critical reappropriation of the concept of culture proposed here overcome the limitations that we have identified in both multiculturalism and antiracism ? |
| 25 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 26 | One key way of protecting ourselves in future is to ensure that the premiums charged fully reflect the risks that the country has to take on in allowing such cover to go forward . |
| 27 | Achym fled abroad to avoid the consequences of his crime . |
| 28 | When she peered closer to read the inscriptions she realised that they were the spoils from Marc 's career — rewards for his many years as an international racing driver . |
| 29 | With a gasp of pleasure , impressed with this firm evidence of Dickensian times , the crowd moved forward to inspect the relics . |
| 30 | As our Army moved forward to meet the Russians the dreadful truth was revealed . |