Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 2 | Therefore , the RAF applied successfully to join the PLANIT Club . |
| 3 | Sunderland failed badly to reproduce the form that had accounted for the division 's runaway leaders , Ipswich , by a comfortable 3–0 scoreline just 48 hours earlier . |
| 4 | Two days later the Founders , Board and management team met together to discuss the crisis . |
| 5 | On her death , he became dangerously ill with grief but recovered sufficiently to marry the granddaughter of the 5th Duke of Devonshire . |
| 6 | Stamford failed entirely to solve the problem of its open fields ; but whereas Nottingham created its slums , Stamford fossilised into the beautiful seventeenth- and eighteenth-century town we see today , a museum piece from a pre-industrial England . |
| 7 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 8 | He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company . |
| 9 | All the children were in , and their Irish ancestry made loud arguing the norm . |
| 10 | The euphoria of that summer gripped radicals of various persuasions : some sought merely to serve the peasantry , with no clear political goal ; some hoped to lay the foundations for a conscious peasant socialist movement ; others shared the hope of the veteran anarchist , M. A. Bakunin ( 1814–76 ) , that it would be possible to ignite immediate peasant rebellion . |
| 11 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 12 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 13 | As this was precisely the aspect of him which Lydia found most annoying the discussion lapsed . |
| 14 | Jezrael tried only to skim the surface of her thoughts . |
| 15 | They appeared on a poster created especially to mark the event , with the zoo keeper , fortified by a Guinness , copying the girder carrier from an earlier poster . |
| 16 | They expressed deep regret and promised henceforth to keep the peace . " |
| 17 | She 'd just got some leverage , loosened enough to see the front of a plywood box , when a soft footstep in the doorway made her leap , guiltily , to her feet . |
| 18 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 19 | In spite of her bulk she moved swiftly to grab the instrument , and she stepped back for fear it should be taken from her again . |
| 20 | ‘ I do hope that 's not my lasagne I can smell burning , my dear , ’ and while she moved swiftly to check the oven and to find that not a thing was burning , Naylor was saying , ‘ We 'll see you at the weekend , Travis . ’ |
| 21 | Events moved swiftly following the death of King Edward . |
| 22 | In the method described previously , the analyst tries to select sentences ( or passages of some other size ) whose meaning is fairly ‘ neutral ’ from the emotional point of view , and will tend to avoid material such as ‘ Why do n't you leave me alone ? ’ or ‘ How can I ever thank you enough ? ’ because the lexical meaning of the words used already makes the speaker 's attitude pretty clear , whereas sentences such as ‘ She 's going to buy it tomorrow ’ or ‘ The paper has fallen under the table ’ are less likely to prejudice the listener . |
| 23 | Sir Danvers Carew was an important and popular man and the police tried desperately to arrest the murderer and bring him to trial . |
| 24 | The real significance of the Seventh Congress was , however , that it tried desperately to create the impression of a new approach . |
| 25 | However , the connection was lost at the tug end , so the lifeboat moved away to allow the tug right up to the casualty 's bow where the lifeboat crew secured the tow wire , after Second Coxswain Davies had started the donkey engine in the fo'c'sle . |
| 26 | The simple consumption function model used above to illustrate the idea of restrictions can also be used to illustrate certain other issues in the econometrics of rational expectations . |
| 27 | Ged Kennedy made it 2–0 before Willie Wilson headed home to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 28 | Official encouragement , genuine popularity and a sense of purpose helped further heal the self-doubt and hesitation that had previously constrained British filmmakers . |
| 29 | ‘ My partner made the original booking , I know , under our company name , and I phoned yesterday to confirm the apartment . |
| 30 | Cranston , also grinning , drew close to watch the charlatan 's reaction . |