Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 2 | The process of unification led the established parties to merge their east and west German organizations : the FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] , the SPD in September [ see p. 37718 ] , and the CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] , shortly before unification . |
| 3 | I heard afterwards that Butler left also , and that Lord Salisbury , as senior Cabinet Minister , invited the remaining Ministers to give their opinion about who should succeed to the vacant and , in the circumstances , not very alluring post . |
| 4 | He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness . |
| 5 | I told the little sods to get their dad , but as usual he ai n't nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 6 | On one occasion no fewer than six females with eighteen kittens established a communal nest of this type and each female allowed the other mothers to offer their milk to any kittens whenever they felt like it . |
| 7 | The trouble , on the last day 's play , allowed the four pundits to exercise their judgment and sense of fair play . |
| 8 | They ordered the young women to remove their upper garments and then to bend forward until their foreheads touched the cold sand . |
| 9 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 10 | On Sept. 23 , 1989 , Menem urged the two factions to abandon their plans to hold separate congresses and elect parallel leaderships , and instead to convene a single congress for October . |
| 11 | On the basis of a report delivered by Gorbachev on Feb. 7 a resolution was adopted which ruled that the independence declaration should be " regarded as having no standing " , and urged the Lithuanian communists to suspend their decision to break with the CPSU until the matter could be debated at the 28th party congress . |
| 12 | The fried bean curd put one in mind of oriental griddle cakes and needed the hot sauces to extract their inscrutable flavour . |
| 13 | St Paul was surely right when he exhorted the early Christians to resolve their disputes among themselves without recourse to the court . |
| 14 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 15 | This again enabled the bourgeois classes to exert their strength and so benefit from the disillusionment with the costs of revolution ( Krygier 1979c ) . |
| 16 | The millet system enabled the Christian Slavs to maintain their churches and monasteries . |
| 17 | People chose the strangest places to leave their rubbish . |
| 18 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 19 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 20 | He easily rounded Eagles cover and cantered the fifty metres to score his first try in a month . |
| 21 | Leapor was , of course , discovered by Freemantle who , though relatively learned , had to bring her friend to the attention of others who had the social connections to promote her work : |
| 22 | Urging the islanders to become more involved in their own defence , he gave assurances , however , that the UK had no immediate plans to reduce its military commitment to the islands following the February agreement to restore diplomatic links with Argentina [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 23 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 24 | The cruel vengeance which Basil exacted from the thousands of prisoners taken at Kleidon — he blinded all save one in every hundred , and compelled the sighted ones to lead their blind comrades back to Prilep , where Samuilo died of shock at the piteous sight — earned him the name of Bulgaroctonos ( Slayer of the Bulgars ) . |