Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 2 | Therefore , the RAF applied successfully to join the PLANIT Club . |
| 3 | the seams , however , neat , will be improved by a deliberate decoration , for example , some matching bought braid , a long plait which could end in a tassel at the floor end , or a further narrow piece of matching Fair Isle or even a different woven pattern , stitched on to conceal the join . |
| 4 | Sunderland failed badly to reproduce the form that had accounted for the division 's runaway leaders , Ipswich , by a comfortable 3–0 scoreline just 48 hours earlier . |
| 5 | They all produce rugs to order , with strict criteria laid down to govern the sizes , colours , designs and qualities . |
| 6 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two days later the Founders , Board and management team met together to discuss the crisis . |
| 9 | On her death , he became dangerously ill with grief but recovered sufficiently to marry the granddaughter of the 5th Duke of Devonshire . |
| 10 | At one stage , the exhibition hall got so crowded the doors had to be closed . |
| 11 | The truth is that Holland were not Holland last night , just a raw collection drafted in to complement the remnants of their regular side . |
| 12 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 13 | It zoomed in to introduce the IntelliServer terminal server for local area networks . |
| 14 | Stamford failed entirely to solve the problem of its open fields ; but whereas Nottingham created its slums , Stamford fossilised into the beautiful seventeenth- and eighteenth-century town we see today , a museum piece from a pre-industrial England . |
| 15 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 16 | Eventually we got together to devise the patents and scale up the process . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All the children were in , and their Irish ancestry made loud arguing the norm . |
| 22 | The euphoria of that summer gripped radicals of various persuasions : some sought merely to serve the peasantry , with no clear political goal ; some hoped to lay the foundations for a conscious peasant socialist movement ; others shared the hope of the veteran anarchist , M. A. Bakunin ( 1814–76 ) , that it would be possible to ignite immediate peasant rebellion . |
| 23 | From this he moved on to command the airship station at Wormwood Scrubs , and then went to the Admiralty to help in airship design and allocation . |
| 24 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 25 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 26 | As this was precisely the aspect of him which Lydia found most annoying the discussion lapsed . |
| 27 | Jezrael tried only to skim the surface of her thoughts . |
| 28 | A year later , when autumn came again to the Moor , Topaz Chilcott climbed her favourite slope and sank down to enjoy the copper and bronze glory of the dying year . |
| 29 | They appeared on a poster created especially to mark the event , with the zoo keeper , fortified by a Guinness , copying the girder carrier from an earlier poster . |
| 30 | They expressed deep regret and promised henceforth to keep the peace . " |