Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This porosity probably formed in response to the same early leaching process that affected the lagoonal mudstones and boundstones , and is made up almost entirely of intragranular voids . |
| 2 | It was the so-called Gilchrist-Thomas process that enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making by removing its impurities with the addition of lime . |
| 3 | It was therefore the playback process that caused the banning of the drum-kit . |
| 4 | ‘ I can do it , ’ she said in a steady , even voice that belied the conflicting emotions churning within her . |
| 5 | This time it was the specialist defence press that placed the construction of military adaptation on the venture . |
| 6 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 7 | She made her voice fade and left the receiver knocking against a table leg . |
| 8 | He saw Louis ' eyes flatten and felt the twitch of a nerve in Gomez 's hands . |
| 9 | Shirley , standing on the bar beside her , followed her pointing linger and gave a gasp . |
| 10 | After lunch I reread and filed the summary . |
| 11 | James Neill , the garden tools firm that suffered a sharp trading downturn , rose 12p to 197p . |
| 12 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 13 | The mixture of usefulness and display that explained the growing importance of the chaplains also lay behind the rise of other household officers . |
| 14 | The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib . |
| 15 | The parachute display that missed the target . |
| 16 | Window wide open , no curtains and a narrow iron bedstead that looked no more comfortable than the one he had himself . |
| 17 | For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant . |
| 18 | CRUNCHED : Gilbey 's Montego ( left ) and the cameraman 's Golf after the head-on crash that followed a chase yesterday |
| 19 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
| 20 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 21 | I mean that looked a write-off so I do n't know |
| 22 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 23 | Well , I hope that clarified a few iss issues and made one or two things clearer . |
| 24 | However , given his equilibrium theory , Bukharin was able to escape the monocausal trap that beset a number of other Marxist theorists on the question of crisis theory . |
| 25 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 26 | The stay-maker proper who cut and shaped the whalebone and canvas was a man , who needed other qualities as well as skill : " He ought to be a very polite tradesman , as he approaches the ladies so nearly . " |
| 27 | They cut and stripped the turf away in small neat squares and then after measuring the ground they slowly and laboriously began to dig . |
| 28 | He easily rounded Eagles cover and cantered the fifty metres to score his first try in a month . |
| 29 | If I lived there I mean and bought a house . |
| 30 | She bade them sit and brought a tray of wine , cups , and a bowl of sugared wafers . |