Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones , although supported by most official opinion , failed for once to influence Baldwin directly . |
| 2 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 3 | The teenager , who can not be named , appeared at a specially-convened youth court at Chesterfield charged with unlawfully killing Mr John Turner ( 80 ) and his wife Marjorie ( 74 ) of Whitwell , Chesterfield , Derbyshire . |
| 4 | According to North , it is not inconceivable that such an oscillating striking device , triggered at suitably chosen intervals by a hydraulic clock , pointed the way to the first mechanical escapement proper . |
| 5 | Atoms consist of a densely packed positively charged nucleus encircled by negatively charged electrons all held in place by the electrical attraction of opposite charges . |
| 6 | All elements are made of the same stuff — positively charged nuclei containing protons and encircled by negatively charged electrons . |
| 7 | 27 constituent bodies are taking the to the roads with their Roadshows , each sponsored by nationally known organisations and with the RFU itself picking up the tab in Leicestershire , Northumberland and Somerset . |
| 8 | IBM EMPLOYEE ARRAIGNED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING $49m WORTH OF MAINFRAME MEMORY BOARDS |
| 9 | Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings . |
| 10 | Defending champion Patrick Wallace came from behind to beat Mark Howe , but Kieran Erwin , twice holder of the title , went out in five frames to Harry Morgan . |
| 11 | Burnley came from behind to beat Stockport 2-1 at Edgeley Park and could thank their new signing Ron Futcher for the equaliser after Edwards had given the home side the lead . |
| 12 | ANNADALE came from behind to beat Glasgow Western 2-1 at Blaris this afternoon , booking themselves a place in tomorrow 's semi-finals against either Lisnagarvey or Ballynahinch . |
| 13 | When it came to actually making policy , however , and actually using ‘ the power we had to try to secure self-government in Indo-China ’ , not only would the problems of intervention against US allies presumably have been more difficult than against her enemies , but there was always the risk as well that circumstances might prejudice ideal or even optimum solutions . |
| 14 | When Richards finally emerged — as ever it was no gladiator 's entrance ; just the usual shambling , dishevelled Deano — the game seemed to suddenly shift England 's way . |
| 15 | There was two of them w wi with a Range Rover the other morning er with all sorts of notices and the following morning they had a motorcyclist er hidden behind the hedge as it were er that seemed to obviously put things right for a couple of days . |
| 16 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , the winning substitute , says he owes Adams a few big drinks after the advice he received on how to ride Party Politics . |
| 17 | If their staple diet still consisted of hydroponically grown vegetables , these were deliciously spiced and sauced — a far more piquant diet than the recycled synthfood that was the lot of the majority of most populations on crowded worlds . |
| 18 | Prudhoe , however , once again shone by somehow blocking Worthington 's close range shot with his foot . |
| 19 | With experienced viewers this tended to lead to new visual discoveries and a concomitant extension of the construct system as it grappled with freshly perceived features . |
| 20 | When Fifa , the international federation of football associations , began to enthusiastically embrace professionalism , blissfully unaware of the social coding that England sought to apply to the game , the FA leaders retreated behind their entrenched ideas of what football represented . |
| 21 | These ferns began to slowly change shape and structure during the Devonian , and some became tall and tree-like . |
| 22 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 23 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 24 | Ashenden himself now sat back in his armchair , crossed his lanky legs , and watched with slightly narrowed eyes as Morse took the sheet from him and proceeded to read the reconstructed conversation : |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll Never Walk Alone ’ was sung with gusto and flares glowed on the terraces as Liverpool started with barely controlled frenzy . |
| 26 | Yet the interpretation of those numbers by the two teams led to diametrically opposed conclusions , as typified by the titles of the two papers . |
| 27 | Certain point mutations in the D-stem and the variable loop of the tRNA led to considerably decreased levels of m 1 G37 , Ψ40 and Q34/manQ34 in the anticodon stem or loop and an increased rate of synthesis for m 5 C49 in the T-stem . |
| 28 | Intra-aortal 5HT , given at the same dose and route as had induced acceleration of ICJ transit , failed to significantly alter baseline absorption found during the ia infusion of saline ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 29 | When the counsellor asked him how he felt about not having sex , he replied that he thought that sex was often ‘ overblown ’ and that , anyway , he did not want to bother Sarah with his attentions , because she had so much else on her plate . |
| 30 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |