Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 3 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 4 | Detectives praised the help they received from the public , saying the artist 's impression of Katherine 's attacker helped greatly to bring about a conviction . |
| 5 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 6 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 7 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 8 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 9 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 10 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 12 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 13 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 14 | As she grew older she came slowly to understand how a sensible , level-headed woman like her mother could have her head completely turned by unaccustomed glamour . |
| 15 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 16 | Mr Taylor 's claim came vividly to mind when the revolving advertising boards around the perimeter of the Hillsborough yesterday flashed up the legend : ‘ UEFA ‘ 96 The Pitch Is England 's . ’ |
| 17 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 18 | The windows were sparkling , the ivy stripped away to let in the light . |
| 19 | When the critical point was reached in mid-1941 , he acted quickly to turn down the heat . |
| 20 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 21 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 22 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 23 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 24 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 25 | He campaigned tirelessly to win back the twice yearly courts or assizes , which Buckingham had lost to Aylesbury . |
| 26 | That dominance began significantly to diminish once the superpowers started to negotiate arms controls . |
| 27 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 28 | As it was , after an excellent first 10 miles , Swanson pulled away to win both the race and the overall challenge . |
| 29 | Prodded by de Gaulle , Pinay created a secret committee , chaired by Rueff , which worked quickly to draw up a plan . |
| 30 | After the success of the centenary festival it was hoped to hold the sing outdoors again , and for the 101st event in 1987 the committee worked hard to set up the staging and prepare the venue ; but a cloudburst just an hour before it was due to start necessitated a change of plan . |