Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both women went to a ‘ smoking cessation course ’ the company laid on before the policy went on stream . |
| 2 | She was roughly shaken , but clung on until the man said : |
| 3 | Dubois asked slowly as the Doctor ushered him and Petion back out . |
| 4 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 5 | In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone . |
| 6 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 7 | But one of the most significant developments in inter-union relations was the ‘ Bridlington Agreement ’ passed at the TUC Congress in 1939 , which laid down that no union should attempt to organize workers at any industrial establishment where another union was already represented and negotiated on behalf of the majority of the workers . |
| 8 | The system is being introduced in response to the Government 's Citizens ' Charter which laid down that every resident with a problem about a particular public service should have access to a well publicised complaints procedure . |
| 9 | The Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act laid down that a person arrested on suspicion could be held without further formality for up to twenty-one days . |
| 10 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 11 | His Lambeth Constitutions of 1281 laid down that the priest should instruct the people in the basics of the faith and preach at least four time a year in English . |
| 12 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 13 | A glass of milk and an apple when you got in and a smack if you were late . |
| 14 | We got in and the Negro driver gunned it away without a word . |
| 15 | He got in and the car pulled away . |
| 16 | which Arthur plunged so that the thump and spray |
| 17 | The area of solid wall became less and the design correspondingly more complex . |
| 18 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ And the interview ? ’ she asked nicely before the trail went cold . |
| 20 | The second covers a miscellany of submissions , some on a yearly or other periodic basis , others made only when the need arises . |
| 21 | At first , we rode together but the freshness of the horses , particularly Bowyer 's and Southgate 's , meant we had to break up . |
| 22 | She realized suddenly that the ground on which she stood , barefooted , was stone hard beneath grass barely damp with early dew . |
| 23 | They clung together and the ground stopped shaking . |
| 24 | After four years , Father Burgon moved on and the parish was given into the care of the Salvation Fathers . |
| 25 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 26 | He rose politely as the waiter ferried her across the room . |
| 27 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 28 | He found , for example , that cover values for vegetation , litter and bare ground were distinct between sites that had been moderately and severely affected with a less distinct gradation occurring between slightly and moderately disturbed sites , and that noticeable exposure of mineral soil occurred only after the vegetation cover was reduced by c. 40 per cent . |
| 29 | This linear relation has been confirmed with in vivo perfusion studies of human jejunum where net absorption of sodium from isotonic enteral feeds containing glucose polymer occurred only when the sodium concentration was above 80–90 mmol/l . |
| 30 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |