Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said there was no need for a recce seein' as how we 'd attacked the Windmill over there every afternoon this week . ’ |
| 2 | He may not have attracted the cameras in quite the way the Princess did , but he certainly brought recognition and respectability to every company or organization whose threshold he crossed . |
| 3 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 4 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
| 5 | The RTC has tenaciously pursued the auditors of practically every failed thrift , and has won some spectacular rulings . |
| 6 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 7 | Up and down the canal , as far as my binoculars can reach , the water is white with floating cottony flecks , and we can be sure that they have carpeted the ground to much the same radius in other directions too . |
| 8 | Yet to arrive at this version , Ohmann has nullified the effect of only a few transformations : those transformations used to form coordinated sentences ( cf[5] ) , relative clauses ( cf [ 6 ] ) , and comparative clauses , together with certain deletion rules . |
| 9 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 10 | The project is a pilot study to test the feasibility of computer analysis of data from the Dictionary of Business Biography , itself an ESRC-funded project which had collected the biographies of over a thousand leading English and Welsh businessmen active between 1860 and 1980 . |
| 11 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 12 | From the look of things , it was odds on he 'd done a runner with either the till , a barmaid or the Christmas Club fund . |
| 13 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 15 | ‘ Crusaid has made a donation to almost every major HIV/AIDS project in the UK ’ |
| 16 | The slaughter by Soviet troops of 20 peaceful Georgian demonstrators that year had made a secessionist of almost every Georgian . |
| 17 | A hospital has began an inquiry into how the parents of a cot death baby who were encouraged to cuddle their dead child were given the wrong body to hold . |
| 18 | and has n't had the example of either a mother or a father who understands the necessity of |
| 19 | The Chancellor has clearly got the message about how an independent central bank would have to work if we had a single currency . |
| 20 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 21 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 22 | The youngster has been offered a place in both the Liverpool and Everton schools of excellence . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've had an impression for over a year now that he meets someone special at these conventions . |
| 24 | Only a single company is allowed to operate in each part of the country but the incumbent is given a licence for only a fixed period of time . |
| 25 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
| 26 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 27 | ‘ I have played the organ at quite a few weddings but this is one that stood out . |
| 28 | ‘ I have played the organ at quite a few weddings but this is one that stood out . |
| 29 | J.L. Lowes in his book The Road to Xanadu has given an account of how the mind 's vats work . |
| 30 | Any woman who has not spent the week in either a coma or the cupboard-under-the-stairs will know this . |