Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suspicious customs man asked to see Melms swing his 6-iron when he arrived in Britain for a ‘ golfing holiday . ’ |
| 2 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 3 | She became a mediator between the authorities and student leaders , and on a number of occasions tried to persuade students to end their hunger strike , leave Tiananmen Square and return to campus . |
| 4 | In the culmination of a week of street unrest , the Moneda presidential palace was the scene of violent clashes on Nov. 12 when the security forces moved to disperse protesters demonstrating their support for four political prisoners critically ill in hospital after a six-week hunger strike . |
| 5 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 6 | IN THE 1960s a mystique surrounded hallucinogenic drugs like LSD because they seemed to enable users to alter their perceptions of reality , and explore their ‘ inner minds ’ . |
| 7 | Under such influence he 'd heard rationalists confess their devotion to tabloid astrologies ; heard atheists lay claim to heavenly visitations ; heard tales of psychic siblings , and prophetic deathbed pronouncements . |
| 8 | I learnt to make pots to keep my food in . |
| 9 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 10 | The indetermination he sought to excise returns to govern him . |
| 11 | It gave a degree of certainty to public sector managers in the short run , but when the tax costs began to mount governments resumed their sudden cuts — just the situation Plowden had hoped to avoid . |
| 12 | Mortimer found a junior lieutenant and began issuing orders to have his maps of the island , tactical notes , and sundry other items brought in . |
| 13 | From there they began formulating plans to take what they saw as rightly theirs , without waiting for their father 's demise . |
| 14 | Through the early growth of the brain these ape-hominoids developed greater fluency in the use of their hands and began to fashion tools to protect themselves against the powerful hunters . |
| 15 | On May 18th Antoine Riboud , BSN 's boss , said that sales had fallen by 5.7% in the first quarter , and threatened to cut prices to defend its markets . |
| 16 | In response to the CNAA 's complaint the DES agreed to circularize colleges warning them that they had to be prepared to satisfy CNAA requirements , and indicating that the DES would not be prepared to entertain new courses in excess of likely demand . |
| 17 | The directive also covered assisting patients to take their own life , and medical intervention to terminate the life of someone unable or no longer able to express his or her wishes . |
| 18 | He never got one back with a check-mark , but he kept copies in his office until , in October 1986 , he started to destroy documents to cover his tracks . |
| 19 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |
| 20 | To encourage the population to drink clean water the Local Government Board decided to use fountains to advertise its existence . |
| 21 | At the conclusion of the second world climate conference , held in Geneva on Nov. 5-7 , the 137 participating governments signed an agreement which recognized that global warming was a reality and undertook to take steps to limit it . |
| 22 | Wendy Twist , IHEI programme manager , calls it ‘ a user-friendly , illustrated , living document , a working took to help hoteliers develop their own working methods … |
| 23 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 24 | If posture and where you put your body meant anything ( and she had heard sociologists say it did ) , Steve had a strong desire not to be seen . |
| 25 | That Bernard had broken noses defending her to his chauvinistic schoolmates . |
| 26 | Already Darlington and South-West Durham authorities had joined forces to increase their service-buying power and other districts were keen to follow suit , said Mr Gary Smith , director of finance and business strategy with the NRHA . |
| 27 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 28 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 29 | He had let things take their course , like a rider letting go the reins . |
| 30 | One of the " infiltrators " was subsequently shot dead by an IDF patrol ; according to Israeli reports , the dead gunmen had carried documents identifying him as a member of Hamas and of the Jordanian Popular Army . |