Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 2 | He sat still and his words seemed to come crawling up the sunlight , over the grass . |
| 3 | None seemed to begrudge handing over the thousands of dollars in tolls payable in cash by each ship to the Canal Commission , which brought in more than £150 million in 1988 . |
| 4 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 5 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 6 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 7 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 8 | Four people sustained minor injuries and the van burst into flames ; the two people believed to have carried out the attack , however , escaped on a motorbike . |
| 9 | The war seemed to have swept away the slightly homosexual attitudes of that corner of the pub , for which Charles was thankful , though not feeling particularly able for the brittle heterosexual backchat around him this evening . |
| 10 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 11 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 13 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 14 | Then he give up , he got , you know , older and we bought the pony off him and she was used to rounds , you see , and she was used to pulling , after you 'd started going down the Fen she knew all the places . |
| 15 | Children who came hoping to try out the latest Streetfighter games nearly ended up in street fights themselves . |
| 16 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 17 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 18 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 19 | The left-wing Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) claimed to have carried out the killing , but police security experts stated that the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group ( Sendero Luminoso ) was probably responsible . |
| 20 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |
| 21 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 22 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 23 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 24 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 25 | Once I was in that job , I started looking to see where the bodies were buried . ’ |
| 26 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 27 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 28 | Finally she felt compelled to pick up the conversation , make some pretence at normality . |
| 29 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 30 | I never did like sorting out the sheep from the goats … at the end of the first term in the fifth year … did n't like that at all … there was always a sort of … he 's doing ‘ O ’ level , the elite group . |