Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 October 1980 Gabriel Ferrucci , president of Raybestos Manhattan 's international division , flew into Cork to appear at a joint press conference with IDA at which the company announced its intention to pull out of Ireland . |
| 2 | Although Moscow undertook a trade push in Latin America in the late 1960s ( offering credits of $100 million to Brazil in 1966 , $57 million to Chile in 1967 , $2 million to Colombia and $20 million to Uruguay in 1968 ) and saw its efforts pay off to some extent with a steady increase in turnover between the two regions during the 1970s , the true extent of the Soviet economic presence in Latin America is by no means as great as many observers claim ( see appendix for detailed figures on Soviet trade with Latin America ) . |
| 3 | The trade unions threatened a general strike unless the National Assembly freed its agenda to move on to pressing economic questions , and anti-BSP demonstrations in Sofia drew thousands of supporters . |
| 4 | The Baderini Cardinal gave it its baroque facade and had its gardens laid out with descending terraces , fountains , a grassy-staged theatre , grottoes and a lemon house guarded by statues of antique giants . |
| 5 | There was a flurry of constitutional activity between 1906 and 1914 , and the House of Lords had its powers cut back by the Parliament Act , 1911 , so formally putting the " balanced " constitution to rest . |
| 6 | One had its ribs kicked in through its lungs … leastways that wuz his opinion of how it prob'ly happened . |