Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | The High Court heard allegations that each doctor in turn failed to spot a deformity of the left hip . |
| 3 | The Soviet government failed to provide a warning of the accident to European governments and when information was offered it was incomplete . |
| 4 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 5 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |
| 6 | Fasting gastric electrical control activity was recorded and analysed using a modification of the method described by Van der Schee et al . |
| 7 | What is indisputable is that the Meiji government , having abolished the official status system of the Tokugawa , tried to impose a permutation of the Tokugawa social ethos , and this ideal sought a fusion of social structure and social morality . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School at least tried to relate an understanding of the instinctive aspects of human behaviour to conscious forms of individual and social behaviour , even if we remain unhappy with the precise way in which this combination was brought about . |
| 9 | The leader of the Convergence for Social Democracy ( CDS ) , Placido Miko , was arrested as he tried to pass a copy of the opposition newspaper La Verdad to a traveller to Spain . |
| 10 | Just as their main interest was in the ways of life of people as seen by the people themselves , so they tried to get a sense of the past into their work by using life-histories . |
| 11 | She reached out across the street and tried to get an idea of the shape of a building she could dimly see . |
| 12 | This is the task to which the church historians of the fourth and fifth centuries , above all dedicated themselves : their work , more than anything else , helped to shape a sense of the church 's identity with the church of the martyrs , rooted in its own past , continuous and undisturbed by any emperor 's conversion . |
| 13 | And if Nicolo tried to make an issue of the fact that he 'd bought out her contract so she could work for him , he could stuff it ! |
| 14 | It was , nonetheless , a film that tried to solicit an understanding of the emerging drug culture , and , for good or evil , persisted with its apologist tone that acid was OK when used with caution . |
| 15 | Eldorado , says Mr Kilborn , tried to become a hybrid of the two — plenty of sun and sand , glamour , leisured living with a storyline . |
| 16 | Dennett admitted causing a breach of the peace . |
| 17 | In court 23 year old Colin Longmuir admitted causing a breach of the peace at the couples home , and was jailed for three months . |
| 18 | Cell extracts were prepared by sonication , treated with DNaseI to remove nucleic acids and the met repressor concentration estimated using a combination of the Bradford assay and SDS-PAGE . |
| 19 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 20 | About 25% of the searches studied contained a member of the cross-reference list . |
| 21 | Her prolonged absence had affected his concentration , and he 'd made a hash of the signature of Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 22 | She knew she 'd made a hash of the whole thing , and she 'd let her tongue run away with her . |
| 23 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 24 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 25 | Zambia noticed she 'd grown a tuft of the real stuff back which fell into her eyes . |
| 26 | He 'd used a variant of the old ‘ divide and conquer ’ technique . |
| 27 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 28 | Scotty was weary , the gigs were far apart , he 'd had a touch of the ‘ flu and , at over 60 , really did n't feel up to it . |
| 29 | She 'd had a number of the wives in tonight , all choosing bits and pieces out of their Christmas Club money . |
| 30 | Ever-resourceful , he 'd stolen a copy of the Evening Standard to hide his blushes and gone home by Underground . |