Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 2 | The staff in the main were machine operators , whose jobs ranged from cutting out the designs from the cloth to skilfully stitching the garments together . |
| 3 | These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted . |
| 4 | Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters . |
| 5 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 6 | For the next ten years , Richard II concentrated on building up a reputation with a reputably good government beside him against his powerful uncles . |
| 7 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 8 | In the first half Leeds concentrated on attacking down the left wing . |
| 9 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 10 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
| 11 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 12 | The Library is grateful to readers who helped by filling in a questionnaire . |
| 13 | But was damnably plagu 'd for to find out the Sign |
| 14 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 15 | Will the right hon. Gentleman join me once again in congratulating Mr. James Baker on the notable and indispensable part that he played in bringing about the Madrid conference ? |
| 16 | ‘ It was quite frightening to see the extent of the flooding , and a tribute must be paid to the emergency services for the part they played in rescuing quite a number of people , ’ said a Dyfed County Council spokesman . |
| 17 | When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic ’ or ‘ moderation ’ did n't have much meaning for me . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that the Baron 's wife , who has transferred her main residence to Spain , was of great influence when it came to deciding where the collection should alight . |
| 19 | However , in what the Guardian of July 9 called " a scintillating display of his personality and skill at manipulation " , Gorbachev castigated and cajoled the congress into reversing this decision ; on this and several subsequent occasions it was proved that the combative talk by the majority conservatives was strikingly at odds with their docility when it came to challenging outright the will of the party leader . |
| 20 | It became like putting together a manic jigsaw puzzle on the grand scale : ‘ What bit will go in there ? ’ |
| 21 | This consisted of cutting up the body into pieces and boiling it in wine or vinegar until fat and flesh separated from the bones . |
| 22 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 23 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 24 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |
| 25 | Many felt they would benefit from the assistance of trained cancer counsellors , so work began on setting up the course . |
| 26 | I use a punchcard roll and began by punching out the customary two rows of holes for the overlapping join , only to find that the first row stretched the plastic slightly , giving a wavy edge . |
| 27 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 28 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 29 | But he began by scouting out the field of timbre perception from a Gibsonian perspective . |
| 30 | Spurs then started knocking the ball around nicely from the back and succeeded in creating quite a few gaps . |