Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 4 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
| 5 | Coke , a bitter opponent of prerogative power , attacked vigorously the jurisdiction of all the courts exercising this jurisdiction . |
| 6 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 7 | How good that wine tasted , if only because I secretly thought , what a rare old vintage I must be quaffing , laid down no doubt before the Battle of Trafalgar ! |
| 8 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 9 | The getaway driver , in a blue Ford , laid down a burst of suppressing fire , forcing the bodyguards to dive for cover . |
| 10 | The troops would n't leave the trenches , so the French generals laid down a barrage on them . |
| 11 | Mel Chin ( USA , b. 1951 ) laid down a field of plants which extract heavy metals from the ground by a process called hyperaccumulation , in his ‘ Revival field Netherlands : simultaneous replicated field experiments ’ . |
| 12 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 13 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 14 | Major-General Frank Kitson , writing in 1977 , laid down a code of basic principles for the guidance of a government fighting terrorism . |
| 15 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |
| 16 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 17 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 18 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 19 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 20 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |
| 21 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal laid down the law in these terms in Gibbons and Others v South West Water Services Ltd [ 1992 ] PIQR P 224 . |
| 23 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 24 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 25 | She laid down the phone with a small sigh of relief . |
| 26 | Maggie laid down the job in hand and wiped her forehead . |
| 27 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |
| 28 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 29 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 30 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |