Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
2 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
3 | There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust , dislike and fear of us . |
4 | During the week before Mr Ro 's resignation , many leading members of the ruling party made public comments backing his departure . |
5 | A salad of chicory tossed in a roquefort sauce made herculean efforts to revive our jaded appetites and who could resist turbotine ( baby turbot ) grilled on the bone and served whole with pommes alumettes — chips to you mate ! |
6 | The Legion 's recruiting post was only a small part of a large camp , which also housed French teenagers doing their military service ; it formed an enclave of tidiness and order among the sloppiness of the conscripts ' barracks . |
7 | At the age of twenty-three she was called to give evidence on workmen 's compensation before a parliamentary commission in the House of Lords and she also helped Labour MPs prepare their case for the Shops Bill . |
8 | For others still , the administration which war inevitably brought in its wake provided further opportunities to serve their country 's cause . |
9 | In contrast , Edwin Land 's belief that other people in the organization should have the same rich , varied job as himself , the fact that he used similar symbols to describe his products , his organization , and his own life ( as we shall describe in greater detail below ) enabled stakeholders to trust him . |
10 | The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet . |
11 | And he used these things to illustrate his message about the kingdom of God . |
12 | Noreen used these weeks to polish her act and ‘ sell ’ the songs as Bernie had said she should . |
13 | A psychiatrist who helped former hostages to overcome their ordeal has been presented with a People of the Year award . |
14 | Joyriders used front lawns to practise their handbrake turns . |
15 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
16 | Even at this early stage of motor car development the LNW built special vans to convey its rival ; the carrying trucks designed for horse-drawn vehicles were too small for modern cars . |
17 | A battle with Sir Reginald Blomfield [ q.v. ] , who designed formal gardens to display his houses , was fuelled by editorials in the Garden , damning terraces and topiary planned by architects . |
18 | Even when she was a politician she let potential voters fondle her breasts on the hustings ( her politics are a sexually-liberated shade of Green : she is in favour of love hotels and the environment ) . |
19 | Esquire asked six writers to describe their worst holiday experience |
20 | This position would be impossible to tolerate if the UK government made serious attempts to put its own excise duty house in order . |
21 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
22 | The plantation owners were mainly Low Country Sinhalese from the littoral who were seeking to invest capital which they had made as entrepreneurs , and they usually hired Low Countrymen to manage their estates . |
23 | Or were those who studied these sub-cultures romanticising their role ? |
24 | As a result of recent research , we can now trace possible sources for most of the individual elements in his theory , but the originality of the way in which he synthesised these elements remains his unique achievement ’ . |
25 | Women 's groups and other organisations have , over the years , mounted considerable campaigns to express their concern about policing and its effect on women . |
26 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
27 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
28 | AMAN who hired two youths to firebomb his neighbours after they complained about his loud music was jailed for 12 years yesterday for manslaughter . |
29 | As concerns mounted about the extent of the yakuza groups ' officially tolerated dominance of prostitution and gambling , the government adopted new measures to control their activities . |
30 | Make- up artists are brought in to transform the faces of these girls ; their hands are slapped away from beige foundation , and the sleek colours of Chanel bring the glow of affluent youth to faces that have for more than twenty years caused most men to avert their gazes in dismay . |