Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 2 | Former Senator Goodell tried to cheer up the Shah . |
| 3 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 4 | In INDIA , for instance , despite the sterilisation scandals which helped to bring down the Ghandi Administration in 1977 , there are now new reports of widespread sterilisation abuse in Gujerat ( using famine relief as an ‘ incentive ’ ) and Rajasthan ( using promises of employment as an ‘ incentive ’ for tribal women ) . |
| 5 | Barakai commenced a fury of strokes which seemed to beat down the Manchu 's blade . |
| 6 | You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end ! |
| 7 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 8 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 9 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 10 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 11 | Thus ‘ the Soviet police ’ tended to conjure up the KGB . |
| 12 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 13 | At the London final , where they were interviewed by Gloria Hunniford , one contender wanted to paddle down the Amazon and another wanted to climb Kilimanjaro . |
| 14 | Out of the West : Fast Icelander set to speed up the Bush image |
| 15 | Lewis Edwards tells of someone who wanted to break up the Hobgoblin Stone ( Carreg-y-Bucci ) in Wales for gateposts . |
| 16 | He wanted to take on the Glamorgan job again , whenever Butcher may decide to retire , and he was pleased to be thought a contender to take England to India if , as is expected , Graham Gooch opts out . |