Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though there was consensus among most delegates that production cuts were needed to avoid an oil glut which would weaken prices as demand dipped in the spring , the discussions became bogged down with claims by Kuwait for special treatment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 5 | ‘ But I thought yer was sayin' that Joe 's bruvver got beaten up over Stepney . |
| 6 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 7 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 8 | The company 's shareholders got tangled up in a general bout of profit-taking that hit all electricity shares . |
| 9 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 10 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 11 | The entire plan violated every principle upon which the SAS had been founded , yet Stirling agreed to go along with it . |
| 12 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 13 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
| 14 | My mum got fed up with it . |
| 15 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 16 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 17 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 18 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 19 | Countless au pairs fled sobbing back to Bilbao after he swooped on their smalls yelling , ‘ Just as I thought ! |
| 20 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 21 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 22 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 23 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 24 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 25 | The gossip columnists of Europe and the East Coast fought to keep up with him . |
| 26 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
| 27 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 29 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 30 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |