Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proprietors of Elmfield House , Jim and Edith Lillie , were initially a little apprehensive about opening their much restored and much-cared for home to the public — but they soon came to appreciate the friendship and interest given to them by their visitors from all over the world . |
| 2 | After reading my just completed programme notes for this Saturday , I have decided that spending money on a creative writing course at the Tech . |
| 3 | Williams was adopted by AI as a prisoner of conscience , detained for expressing his conscientiously held beliefs . |
| 4 | ‘ Dance Narratives And Fantasies of Achievement ’ , a reworking of an earlier essay , is another important piece which explores how popular ballet books and cinematic narratives like Fame offer girls the possibility of imagining themselves fully engaged in their work , independent of their families and effectively ‘ taking destiny into their own hands ’ . |
| 5 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | The prejudice against saying or writing she generically is extremely strong , and the habit of saying he deeply ingrained . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 9 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 10 | Well I remember er there was a fella by the name of Have you ever run across him ? |
| 11 | If that was the case , then the example of the rule of the Ceauşescus suggests what the People 's Mafia might have turned into had it ever succeeded in gaining power in Sicily . |
| 12 | Def Leppard , at no 34 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , are fuming over rumours that one-armed drummer Rik Allen did not play on their latest hit . |
| 13 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
| 14 | Salt kept her hard at work round the house from the time she woke till late at night , with grim satisfaction in seeing her too worn out to do more than fall into bed and sleep . |
| 15 | The question which next arises is whether the doctor , while prohibited from doing anything deliberately aimed at causing the death of his patient , may so adjust the treatment that he does not actively intervene and the patient dies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had been called upon to show my newly strengthened Christian faith before the whole congregation of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In commercial computer applications , he believes sound will be particularly important in collaborative tasks , where people need to be alert to what colleagues are doing , without having it distractingly thrust upon their attention . |
| 23 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 24 | It would have been too sad to think about had she not met two apprehensive Wrens : Lucinda and Jane , kids hardly out of their gymslips who would need a bit of looking after . |
| 25 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 26 | For had he not lost that woman 's love in death ? |
| 27 | ‘ What dreadful things ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who knew what Havvie might be saying , for had he not said it to her , before his court ? |
| 28 | For a short while , Bruce 's mind wondered what measure of guilt he bore , for had he not wished the King 's death ? |
| 29 | Some discernment she had , however , for had she not made most complimentary remarks about his filets de sole Murat ? |
| 30 | For had she not earned such curses ? |