Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " 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 | At one stage , the exhibition hall got so crowded the doors had to be closed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 9 | Eventually we got together to devise the patents and scale up the process . ’ |
| 10 | Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year . |
| 11 | He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company . |
| 12 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 13 | All the children were in , and their Irish ancestry made loud arguing the norm . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As this was precisely the aspect of him which Lydia found most annoying the discussion lapsed . |
| 18 | Jezrael tried only to skim the surface of her thoughts . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They expressed deep regret and promised henceforth to keep the peace . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Events moved swiftly following the death of King Edward . |
| 26 | But the Peak Park moved swiftly to remove the anti-police slogans and other symbols . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I stopped outside Quirke the Butcher 's , and noticed with surprise that all the joints of meat were made of wood . |
| 29 | Sir Danvers Carew was an important and popular man and the police tried desperately to arrest the murderer and bring him to trial . |
| 30 | The real significance of the Seventh Congress was , however , that it tried desperately to create the impression of a new approach . |