Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 2 | Gazzer 's head was wrenched up until it crashed into the back of the seat . |
| 3 | The rain had let up and we walked at first , then as the first drops turned into a steady drizzle , we took a cab . |
| 4 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 5 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 6 | The carrot will attract any wireworm around , which can be lifted out as they munch on it ( Harry says he finds this particularly useful for melon beds ) . |
| 7 | The danger is that many businesses are waiting until there is a problem , or even a crisis , to be sorted out before they ask for advice from a solicitor — as said : ‘ Regrettably , lawyers are seen as a cure , not a preventative ’ — and it is the smaller , more vulnerable business that falls into it most . |
| 8 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 9 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 10 | S 239(3) , ICTA 1988 states that surplus ACT can only be carried back if it arises in a corporation tax accounting period . |
| 11 | Do not forget that even if you are a potential council or housing association tenant , you have the right to turn down unsuitable property or demand that certain repairs be carried out before you sign on the dotted line . |
| 12 | The following week tests were carried out and I went with Dad to watch the Brigade endeavouring to pump water to the roof of Blooms the Drapers on The Canal — possibly the City 's tallest building . |
| 13 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
| 14 | The fact that her stomach no longer turned over when he looked at her came as a surprise and disappointment — even unrequited love was better than no love at all . |
| 15 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 16 | In the initial stage , Fig. 8. 18A , breaking waves excavate material from the sea floor and form a submarine bar , which is slowly built up until it appears above sea level ( Fig. 8.18B ) . |
| 17 | His head had jerked up when I leapt to my feet — now it sank back on to his hollow chest . |
| 18 | It was haunted , of course , by the ghost of a witch 's daughter ; the sea had risen up while she walked along the shore here , and swept her away because of her wickedness . |
| 19 | There was a wide area where the passage broadened out and he lingered by the steps until the raincoat came in sight . |
| 20 | Not wanting anyone to see her dress from behind — the hem had come undone and she was n't wearing stockings — she had hung back as they came through the doors of the Grill Room . |
| 21 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
| 22 | I was wearing a helmet , but it was ripped off as I skidded across the road . ’ |
| 23 | Much later that night , when the storm had died down and they lay at rest in each other 's arms , on the verge of sleep at last , Leonora said very quietly , ‘ Penry . ’ |
| 24 | And I er I went then when the na it was a nationalized this station was closed down and I went to Dolgarrog power station . |
| 25 | The battle against ‘ invaders ’ from North Wales and the North West of England was sparked off after they arrived at Ferryside beach , near Camarthen . |
| 26 | He arrived at work at 12.30pm and he was so hyped up that he appeared to be drunk . |
| 27 | The figure is Sien , painfully stripped naked , her bony shanks drawn up as she squats on a sawn-off dead tree stump . |
| 28 | His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition . |
| 29 | And wa and one or two bad journeys with them when they 've got out and everything got over the top , top |
| 30 | The whole service was provided from Sutton depôt and the trams were broken up where they stood in Penge depôt . |