Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the most popular months for marriage were October and November , when harvest was safely gathered in and the annual period of service for farm servants in the corn-growing regions had come to an end and wages had been paid . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |
| 3 | That night the main gate of the dump was destroyed , the chain link fence around it torn down and the concrete posts lining the entrance to the dump smashed . |
| 4 | The rear body capping is drilled off and the rear corner capping also . |
| 5 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 6 | The weld spots need to be drilled out and the easiest way is with a drill-like spot weld remover ( see your local motor factor ) . |
| 7 | The yolk is squeezed out and the crushed shell , usually still held together by its membranous lining , is then neatly regurgitated . |
| 8 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 9 | New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training . |
| 10 | The ease with which this theft was carried out and the incompetent way in which it was investigated makes one wonder if America is not secretly pleased that Israel has become a nuclear power in the Middle East so that it can act as tripwire in any conflict . |
| 11 | There is the gravest risk of a rupture of the uterus if the section is not carried out and the natural labour process is permitted to continue . |
| 12 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 13 | If it were to become an actual consistent condition , the very purpose of life itself ( which is growth towards perfection through the struggle between opposites or growth towards total ‘ order ’ ) would be cancelled out and the evolutionary process would cease to be of significance . |
| 14 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 15 | Poor immigrants from Ireland , Wales and adjoining parts of Lancashire and Cheshire had moved in and the old wealthy elite that had previously enjoyed Everton 's rural isolation had left for more secluded homes beyond the township bounds . |
| 16 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 17 | On April 12 two Fireflies on patrol attacked a formation of Japanese bombers heading for Okinawa , four of the bombers being shot down and the fifth badly damaged . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 19 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 20 | the last six observations of it has , right , the first six observations , sorry the er the first twenty odd observations are real , right , that they have n't been made up but the last six observations have been made up , right , to er to illustrate structural change . |
| 21 | But the prosperous had moved out and the poor had moved in . |
| 22 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 23 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 24 | The ministries of Industry , Trade and Services and of Agriculture were closed down and the two respective ministers , Ivan Pushkarov and Stanislav Dimitrov , left the Cabinet . |
| 25 | Gradually , as the demobilisation began to take effect , the smaller satellite airfields were closed down and the surplus staff posted mainly to permanent stations . |
| 26 | A further paragraph in this message in which the State Department gave its views on the proposal to hand-over the Cossacks we shall come to in Chapter Six , but in respect of the Yugoslavs the State Department was ruling that , whether they were Chetniks or not in conformity with agreed allied policy they should not be handed over and the Supreme Allied Commander was to be left in no doubt of the State Department 's view . |
| 27 | Thirty-two men had got over and the only people hurt had been two patrolling guards hit by stray bullets . |
| 28 | As a result , the first edition of Annex 13 was drawn up and the basic principle of one State ( the State of registry ) being able to participate in the investigation conducted by another State ( the State of occurrence ) was established . |
| 29 | All too frequently heads of agreement alone are drawn up and the full agreement left for later long delayed execution . |
| 30 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |