Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 2 | Women 's hair got blown about . |
| 3 | ‘ But I thought yer was sayin' that Joe 's bruvver got beaten up over Stepney . |
| 4 | On Monday Clark 's board met to weigh up three rival offers , all believed to be about £150 million . |
| 5 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 6 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 7 | The photographer got pissed off and went back to the paper and said they were uncooperative and really difficult , ’ says Houghton . |
| 8 | My accent got mixed up . ’ |
| 9 | My mum got fed up with it . |
| 10 | This 26-year-old married businessman was beaten up , burned and sexually assaulted by a torture gang ‘ and the six-man gang tried to tear out their victim 's toenails with pliers — then ripped off adhesive tape they had stuck to his genitals … |
| 11 | The sketch involved staggering around completely blotto . |
| 12 | The hundred shares index rallied to close down twenty-eight point two at twenty-four , o three point seven . |
| 13 | The wizard tried to hang on but another low branch , stouter than the others , knocked him out of the saddle . |
| 14 | Carrie used her TK powers to cause her mother 's heart beat to slow down until , finally she said ‘ stop ’ and Margaret White collapsed and died . |
| 15 | Their case helped to trigger off a savings and loan crisis in Maryland in 1985 . |
| 16 | The budget proposed selling off an estimated US$1,300 million worth of state-run enterprises ; expanding stock and bond markets ; and rationalizing the tax structure , with the reduction of the top tax rate from 62 to 52 per cent , and further projected cuts the following year . |
| 17 | The only trouble there though , she realised , as despondency tried to set in again , was that , apart from actually being in the delightful spa town of Mariánské Láznë , and actually being here in Czechoslovakia , a country she had wanted to visit , there was no other bright side . |
| 18 | ‘ On the female side , ’ the Prior felt impelled to point out . |
| 19 | Granny Smith , a neighbour of Mrs Dyer in Reading , swore that a brick found holding down one of the tiny cadavers was the same one that Mrs Dyer used to keep her flat irons on . |
| 20 | Earnings are down 19 p.c. to 26.7p a share , but with the benefits of its expansion programme expected to show through , the dividend is being lifted 12 p.c. to 8.7p , with the payment of a 5.8p final . |
| 21 | She spoke about her life and at the end of the day she offered to iron out a last minute hitch when the pianist failed to turn up . |
| 22 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 23 | Robbery witness asked to speak up |
| 24 | The gossip columnists of Europe and the East Coast fought to keep up with him . |
| 25 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 27 | I do n't know how that tin got left out there . |
| 28 | The town 's traders agreed to move their stalls off the High Street , and the mayor agreed to give up his parking space , so the BBC could set up an exhibition marquee . |
| 29 | His career as a musician failed to take off and in a fit of depression one night he got drunk before he was due to on stage at a trawlermen 's club in Hull . |
| 30 | As regards the current European Communities-European Free Trade Area negotiations [ see p. 37906 ] , the programme avoided ruling out the possibility of an eventual application for EC membership . |