Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This company subsequently made and sold pultruding machines to many other plastics specialists , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 3 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 4 | Pathe , epitomised by its crowing cockerel and mildly patronising commentaries , stopped producing newsreels in 1970 after 75 years ' coverage of world events because of the decline of the film industry and a change in cinema audience tastes . |
| 5 | You ever tried keeping milk for five kids without a fridge in a heatwave ? ’ |
| 6 | Initially the government proposed establishing HATs in twenty estates but by March 1989 , because of financial constraints , they had decided to proceed with only nine . |
| 7 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 8 | Half or more frequently also helped children with dressing , administered first aid , made and maintained teaching aids of various kinds and helped the class teacher with the general management of behaviourally difficult children . |
| 9 | GORDON Subdued holding job in wide positions that prevented McAllister and Speed beaking more often . |
| 10 | The programme , known as the Oral Therapy Extension Programme ( OTEP ) , involved sending teams of Oral Replacement Workers to visit all the villages in certain Thanas . |
| 11 | Lapsley 's ( 1985 , 1986 ) research involved sending questionnaires to all ten UK water authorities , to 88 local authorities and 68 health authorities . |
| 12 | The annual Tea Meeting on 12 January 1886 involved buying tea at 2/6 per pound ( about 13p ) , sugar at 2d per pound ( about 1p ) and 15 pounds of sweets at 5d per pound ( a total cost of around 32p ) . |
| 13 | ‘ When the government first proposed moving people from institutional care into the community , a government committee appeared to investigate this matter and reported in 1988 , warning that ‘ care in the community is not a cheap option ’ , ’ said Ms Laird . |
| 14 | Is it true that among the inquiry 's recommendations are the provision of signalling alterations , the installation of new protective devices and changed signalling practice at that and other junctions , which may cause delays to approaching trains ? |
| 15 | ‘ The project involved giving employment to 1,000 local Ghanaians during the running of this contract and supplying the necessary hospitalisation , electricity , water and education , previously non-existent , and the control of the problem of malaria which was rife in the area . ’ |
| 16 | We were easy targets for ridicule , and because we were angered and hurt by all of this , we withdrew further into ourselves , and stopped having contact with heterosexual women almost entirely . |
| 17 | Even as we travelled , well south of Limoges , one of the real problems of light aircraft flight , particularly in the colder months , became apparent when we encountered icing conditions at 8000 feet . |
| 18 | During April he was obliged to withdraw two bills ( one of which changed voting rules in regional elections ) and to postpone another for fear that they would be defeated . |
| 19 | She tried making friends with other women who had children , exploring ways of shared childcare ; but faith was not enough , they were bogged down by impossible travel arrangements , endless irresponsibility and hopeless public transport . |
| 20 | As a last resort they tried introducing Ned to other stones in an attempt to distract his interest — blondes , brunettes and the occasional hard-to-find red-head but all to no avail . |
| 21 | The allegations involved making use of unpublished , price-sensitive information when he bought shares in Centreway at the time he was negotiating on City and Westminster 's behalf to buy a stake in Centreway . |
| 22 | But it pursued accommodating policies at first and did not deflate until 1964 . |
| 23 | Norway imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1987 and in 1991 , for the first time , stopped killing whales for scientific purposes . |
| 24 | Cook , of Sutton , Surrey , admitted causing death by reckless driving . |
| 25 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 26 | At Northampton Crown court Hayton admitted causing death by reckless driving . |
| 27 | Also , activated transforming genes in some human tumours have been detected by DNA transfection . |
| 28 | He imagined the personal messages which appear in the back pages ( usually on cheaper paper , and often coloured a dull pale yellow or pink ) of such magazines , and he imagined writing replies to these messages , imagined exactly what he would say , even imagined meeting some of these men . |
| 29 | He 'd taking part in white water rafting like this , in a supervised trip with his wife and friends . |
| 30 | The monastery at Peterborough owned the quarries in the Middle Ages , and granted quarrying rights to other abbeys for an appropriate consideration . |