Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |
| 2 | Nicholas and Robin Higgs had approached Neil McEvoy and suggested he break into David Jamison 's room at the house they shared in Kensington Road , Middlesbrough , to teach him a lesson . |
| 3 | Some seedsmen packet small seeds in specially designed plastic tubes that make it easier to sow finely simply by cutting off the end and tapping out the seeds . |
| 4 | The FA have already fined Birmingham £50,000 and ordered them to play two matches behind closed doors , both sentences suspended until the end of next season . |
| 5 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 6 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 7 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 8 | Since the joys of Sky TV brought us Botham and Lamb in sunglasses , deep midwickets all over Kent have donned Ray Bans and proclaimed their allegiance to the New York Yankees . |
| 9 | This prospect is pleasing to me but I have seen Mr Landor and confess myself alarmed . |
| 10 | The pornography squad had just visited Brian Moore and warned him that if he took a new ‘ adult contact ’ magazine , Way Out , the law would move , fast . |
| 11 | He 's done radio interviews and had his picture in the local papers ! |
| 12 | A couple of wretches on the run , skulking in the bushes on the lookout for prey , would never have dared break cover and try their luck with us . |
| 13 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 14 | I would write to all the publishing houses that regularly produced art books and offer my services to them . |
| 15 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 16 | He had not liked his ride from Newmarket in the horse-box but she had watched Bunny whisper and wheedle him into tranquillity . |
| 17 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |
| 18 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 19 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 20 | Now you 've crossed Westminster bridge and achieved your goal , we outline the best possible way to recover . |
| 21 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 22 | This afternoon a man caliming to be Hanger called Grendon prison and said he was in Aylesbury and armed with a shotgun . |
| 23 | In some cases companies introduced job classification and revised their wage structures based on job evaluations … |
| 24 | The research investigates the reasons why companies have introduced Quality Circles and evaluates their benefits and shortcomings . |
| 25 | But what woman could have lured Angela Brickell and persuaded her to take all her clothes off in the middle of a wood ? ’ |
| 26 | Relations were not disturbed even when the Khomeini government arrested Tudeh leaders and dissolved their movement in 1983 . |
| 27 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 28 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 29 | He had waylaid Mr Dwerringhouse and hit him on the head to stun him , but in falling to the ground , the older man had hit his head on a large stone and sustained a fatal blow . |
| 30 | Take a clean never before formatted HD disk and format it to 360K with the FORMAT A : /4 DOS Command . |