Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tender was accepted , the various obligations could be divided amongst its members , while the EEIG itself became effectively the project manager , with a co-ordinating role . |
| 2 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 3 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 4 | She laid down the printing frame that she held . |
| 5 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 6 | She laid down the seed packets for emphasis . |
| 7 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 8 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 9 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 10 | Rather than being the means of communication within business , the file became merely the resting place for papers circulated separately . |
| 11 | An attempt was made where possible to aspirate gastric juice using a Teflon catheter passed down the suction biopsy channel . |
| 12 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 13 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 14 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 15 | Applied down the Job Centre . |
| 16 | A lorry thundered down the Woolwich Road towards Greenwich , making conversation temporarily impossible . |
| 17 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 18 | Three different circuits were used : The Outer Circuit ( the full course ) measured 4.45 km ( 2.77 miles ) ; the Short Course took in everything except the Home Banking , and was 4.21 km ( 2.62 miles ) long ; and the Mountain Course used only the Home Banking and Finishing Straight and measured 1.88 km ( 1.17 miles ) . |
| 19 | Successive waves spread through the Canadian archipelago to northwest Greenland , moved down the Mackenzie River , and crossed eastward to Labrador and southern Greenland . |
| 20 | The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre . |
| 21 | All the rabbits had heard the story before : on winter nights , when the cold draught moved down the warren passages and the icy wet lay in the pits of the runs below their burrows ; and on summer evenings , in the grass under the red may and the sweet , carrion-scented elder bloom . |
| 22 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 23 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 24 | The first stage involved only the opening steps in Darwin 's overall argumentation from individual generation to species formation . |
| 25 | Interestingly , Kölbel et al , who used a higher initial dose of 600 mg/kg ethanol , found only a 55% increase in acid secretion . |
| 26 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 27 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 28 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 29 | Dungannon nearly increased their lead when Jonathon Hastings charged down a Highfield kick in midfield . |
| 30 | Pumfrey let down the car window . |