Example sentences of "[vb past] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trod on the projecting stones which the water lapped without covering . |
| 2 | Johnny Dee lifted the manhole cover and peered without enthusiasm into the depths beneath . |
| 3 | A cheer went up with only a single shout of ‘ Shame ! ’ — and recognizing defeat , Will turned and fled without carrying out his threat . |
| 4 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 5 | In the here and now we stopped without incident at White River . |
| 6 | They sauntered and stopped without warning and she had to duck and weave through their chattering bunches . |
| 7 | Second placed Portadown are back to full strength for their home game with Cliftonville ; injury doubts Joey Cunningham and Peter Murray trained without problems . |
| 8 | First of all it excluded without question and as a matter of course half the adult population — women . |
| 9 | She would not be drawn out to talk about her work , to which she almost never referred without the adjective ‘ menial ’ . |
| 10 | But it was also apparent that by taking control of the food supply the government had a powerful weapon against the movement — one that it used without hesitation . |
| 11 | The Labour government broke up and the report of the Macmillan Committee sank without trace . |
| 12 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 13 | Early attempts — including putting a ping-pong ball inside a soap bar — sank without trace . |
| 14 | They sank without trace . |
| 15 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 16 | The track sank without a trace when their label went under , but undeterred Whyte are back with a new deal on Dieter Meier of Yello 's Solid Pleasure Label . |
| 17 | Although a Rural Leases Bill designed to benefit tenants was placed before the Cortes , it was only half-heartedly pursued during 1932–3 and sank without trace when Azaña resigned from office in September 1933 . |
| 18 | Then the shipyards sank without trace , and it was three years on the dole . |
| 19 | There was a sucking noise , a small pool of water formed , and the branch sank without trace . |
| 20 | The then Secretary of State , Mr. Mark Carlisle , had another in 1980 , but both sank without trace . |
| 21 | ‘ But that 's different ! ’ she exclaimed without thinking . |
| 22 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh well — ’ Kadan took the arrow which the bowyer handed to him , nocked it , drew without apparent effort , and loosed . ’ |
| 24 | Limp and apparently lifeless , it permits itself to be mauled and prodded without twitching a muscle . |
| 25 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 26 | When the Slav nations of the Ottoman Empire tried without success to overthrow Turkish authority , Russia gradually moved from diplomatic pressure in their favour to a declaration of war in April 1877 . |
| 27 | Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government . |
| 28 | David tried without success to release Clare . |
| 29 | The Archdeacon , a very straightforward churchman , tried without success to keep the distaste out of his tone . |
| 30 | She listed without hesitation every hunt between here and Yorkshire . |