Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reading my just completed programme notes for this Saturday , I have decided that spending money on a creative writing course at the Tech . |
| 2 | Williams was adopted by AI as a prisoner of conscience , detained for expressing his conscientiously held beliefs . |
| 3 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 4 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 5 | Both parties are taking the talks seriously and a commitment to resolving their diametrically opposed views of next year 's rebel cricket tour by an English team is evident . |
| 6 | Hot on the heels of its flotation ( CI No 2,101 ) , MathSoft Inc has opened a subsidiary in Sunninghill , Berkshire with a view to pushing its newly upgraded Mathcad 4.0 technical calculation package into Europe . |
| 7 | Japan 's electronics companies are well on their way to attaining their often stated goal — breaking IBM 's stranglehold on the world 's computer industry . |
| 8 | I think we would have advanced to the stage we are at had we not used animals in the earlier stages for medical research . |
| 9 | She had enough problems ahead of her , without worrying about stretching her carefully planned budget . |
| 10 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 11 | Make such buyers members of the management company by allotting them fully paid shares therein ; |