Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 2 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 3 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 4 | Twenty-eight replies to the ‘ worst things ’ question mentioned housework or its monotonous , boring quality as the most disliked dimension ; a further six described negatively the women 's feeling of being constantly responsible for home and children . |
| 5 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 6 | Sheriff Principal Ronald Ireland turned down the parents ' appeal that Thursday morning . |
| 7 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |
| 8 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 9 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 10 | At St Moritz she became an expert skater and passed both the men 's and women 's tests . |
| 11 | Magellan , overjoyed and believing that his ultimate goal was within his grasp , brushed aside the doubters ' view that he should , despite the discovery , turn back eastwards for the Moluccas . |
| 12 | They also smashed up the peasants ' illicit vodka stills . |
| 13 | When the factory started up the women 's group dissipated . |
| 14 | Laker took on the airlines ' cartel which held ticket prices high and broke it singlehanded . |
| 15 | And when I er went to go on me own er I still wanted to keep in the union and I went down the Locksmiths ' union , which was in the market place , and they said they er we could n't , we could n't have you in the union if you go on your own erm there 's another denomination or something , was something that you 'd have to join or something like that and be on your own . |
| 16 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 17 | We went , we went up the mountains er a fabulous hotel |
| 18 | Then Davide 's father brought up the Socialists ' opposition to the war , which Tommaso scorned ; and the talk of money resumed . |
| 19 | SACHA GIVARSI looked up the children 's TV presenters of the Sixties and Seventies to find out if they were still young at heart . |
| 20 | Mike Evans , Managing Director of Pacplas , summed up the judges ' view : ‘ First , they 've achieved a great deal and the spirit of the team means they 'll get better and better . |
| 21 | The kitchen with a small staff cooked or warmed up the men 's food free of charge . |
| 22 | In Ixora Trading Incorporated v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 FSR 251 Mummery J struck out the plaintiffs ' writ and statement of claim which , inter alia , alleged breaches of express and implied duties of confidence . |
| 23 | Mr Wilson , whose daughter Marie died in the IRA 's 1987 Remembrance Day blast in Enniskillen , said even the republicans ' most fervent supporters were questioning their campaign . |
| 24 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |