Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 4 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
| 5 | Coke , a bitter opponent of prerogative power , attacked vigorously the jurisdiction of all the courts exercising this jurisdiction . |
| 6 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 7 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 8 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 9 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 10 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 11 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 12 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 13 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 14 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 15 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 16 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 17 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 18 | A research scientist called Mulk got together a group of followers and created two robots , assassination machines designed to put an end to Bangler 's reign of terror , once and for all … |
| 19 | So Ralph got together a group of dealers people like Sidney Janis , Alexandre Rosenberg , Klaus Perls , Pierre Matisse . |
| 20 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 21 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 22 | Fonda read aloud a page of words to her and though his wife had never joined him in his LSD excursions , and marijuana made her sick , she understood from her husband 's descriptions of expanded-mind experiences and images the intensity of his feelings . |
| 23 | But the bulk of it was done by way of the tutorial , a weekly session in which the pupil read aloud an essay of some three thousand words to his tutor and they then discussed it . |
| 24 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 25 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 26 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 27 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 28 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 29 | He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge , with lemon tea . |
| 30 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |