Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lots of you applied for and sold tickets and the winning ticket was drawn by the Princess Royal during the lunch period . |
| 2 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 3 | There were heads hanging from branches in these places , which gleamed as if oiled . |
| 4 | Rosa looked at the weapon piercing the heart of the Mother of God , around which her finely carved wooden hands , so lithe and brown they too might one day reach out and clasp hers , fluttered as if poised either to grasp it and draw it from her or plunge it in deeper . |
| 5 | The people of Forth Worth clapped as if seized with divine ecstasy |
| 6 | There was a smile on his face and it was still on his face when he stopped as if seized up and fell headlong in the passageway . |
| 7 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 8 | Benjamin knelt as if carved from stone . |
| 9 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 10 | Also in India , there appeared a number of radical critiques of its own programme which both contributed to and benefited from the conference on population at Bucharest ( e.g. Weissman 1970 ) . |
| 11 | It is true that in rejecting the [ applicants ' ] daughters they referred to and relied upon their admission criteria but in my judgment they were entitled to use those criteria to decide priorities pursuant to section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 12 | Glad of it anyhow , ’ he added as if caught out in some discourtesy . |
| 13 | Jay drove as if inspired , drinking it all in . |
| 14 | They danced as if hurled by some titanic juggler from below the edge of the world . |
| 15 | She sighed as if relieved of a huge weight and leaned against his chest , waiting for his arms to go round her , her heart singing as his heart thudded fast beside her cheek . |
| 16 | And I like his doodles , follies and ideas toyed with and abandoned in impatience , the debris of a restless desire . |
| 17 | A quick peep at Silas showed that he scowled as if displeased about something . |
| 18 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 19 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 20 | ( c ) Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 a lease of land will include all liberties , privileges , easements , rights , and advantages whatsoever appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land or any part thereof at the date of the lease , demised , occupied , or enjoyed with or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appertenant to the land or any part thereof . |
| 21 | A clause along the following lines could be inserted in the trust deed if it is intended that the same be effective for income tax purposes : No part of the capital , capitalised income , or income shall in any circumstances whatsoever be paid or lent to or applied for the benefit of the settlor or any spouse of the settlor for the time being . |
| 22 | First , low profits ( and their failure to rise during a rapid upswing ) led to and combined with poor business confidence . |
| 23 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
| 24 | Our reporter , Paul Fizpatrick , wrote at the time : ‘ Smith , perhaps too theatrically , fell as if poleaxed . ’ |
| 25 | Nicholas felt as if turned to stone . |
| 26 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 27 | My jaw hurt , my teeth were locked in an instinctive bite , and when released they chattered as if propelled by clockwork . |
| 28 | She lay as if drugged by love , problems such as these far from her conscious mind . |
| 29 | Your personality , your way of doing things , your way of helping someone to dress , how you listen to them — all these can make it a Home where the residents feel secure , looked after and treated with dignity , as explained below : |
| 30 | When Chamberlain returned from his post-war African tour to a hero 's welcome in March 1903 , he found to his hand a request from the Dominions themselves which , though it had nothing to do with Imperial unity , and indeed was rather symptomatic of growing independence , he seized upon and elevated into the first step towards ‘ consolidation of the Empire ’ . |