Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 2 | The same adjectives which had applied to everything else applied to the flat . |
| 3 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 4 | The situations envisaged by that subsection seem to me well illustrated by Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 , which was dealing with the same words in another section of the same Act . |
| 5 | The range will compete with one already produced by ICI , but General Motors wants Du Pont to supply a coolant for its 1994 cars . |
| 6 | A campaign , supported by well known people outside the trade union movement , is planned for next week , separate from one already launched by the unions and another started yesterday by the TUC . |
| 7 | It may indicate that the design is based on one traditionally associated with that name , but the dealer may simply be trying to make the rug seem more interesting by calling it something other than just " Chinese " . |
| 8 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 9 | The course for knitters with any machines will be held on 20th to 24th July and will be followed by one specifically tailored for electronic machine owners on 27th to 31st July . |
| 10 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 11 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 12 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 13 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 14 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 15 | During the meeting of the Special Commission which prepared the preliminary draft of the Convention there was considerable , but inconclusive , discussion of the position which should obtain when service was required on someone strongly suspected of being in a particular country but whose address within the country was unknown . |