Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promoters who fought for his services paid appearance money for the wonder dog who could boost attendances by 500 per cent . |
| 2 | RATNERS , the jewellery chain whose profits plunged after its boss branded one of its lines ‘ total crap ’ , announced yesterday it is to close 180 shops . |
| 3 | The ungodly congregation knelt with their faces bowed to the floor . |
| 4 | Flicking through your magazine as one is apt to do , I was rather startled by ‘ Tennis World reader , Glamorgan ’ who inferred in his letter published in your June edition that you were biased . |
| 5 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't even know the water was there , ’ said Couples , whose Augusta victory came after his tee shot to the short 12th on the final afternoon defied gravity by clinging to a near-vertical bank instead of dropping back into the lake . |
| 7 | In the car , my colleague put his elbow on the wheel and drove with his chin cupped in his hands . |
| 8 | Nicola exhaled with her eyes closed . |
| 9 | As one rather disillusioned Protestant Unionist put it : ‘ they were a party who believed in their God given right to rule this country ’ and they were not about to give up that right , especially as they could see signs of regaining control of their own party . |
| 10 | He claimed it came from his fully- equipped TV centre above the pub he runs in the centre of Liverpool |
| 11 | OpenVision came to its debut armed with a licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co , a reseller agreement with IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc and on-going discussions with the Open Software Foundation , Tivoli Systems Inc and Unix Labs about technology exchanges , and a chair on X/Open 's network security committee and working relationships with Informix Software Inc and SHL Systemhouse Ltd . |
| 12 | OpenVision came to its debut armed with a licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co , a reseller agreement with IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc and on-going discussions with the Open Software Foundation , Tivoli Systems Inc , USL about technology exchanges and a chair on X/Open 's network security committee and working relationships with Informix and SHL Systemhouse . |
| 13 | The mock-Stealer gestured at her snout clad in syn-skin . |
| 14 | But Gunnell showed with her relay run in Portsmouth that she is in shape to beat Olympic finalist Vera Ordina . |
| 15 | I appreciate your comments on certain issues that you extracted from my letter headed ‘ advertising mania ’ in the December edition of Credit Management . |
| 16 | Pain flared in his thigh wound as he landed heavily on his injured leg . |
| 17 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 18 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 19 | Samantha asked with her eyes closed . |
| 20 | She lifted her chin and walked into his room prepared to do battle . |
| 21 | It hung from my neck secured by a length of dressing-gown cord . |
| 22 | Her occasional protestations of being moved by Dame Freya 's works or touched by her personality read like sops — a pretence of even-handedness — in a narrative of quiet , relentless aggression . |
| 23 | ‘ That had the effect of breaking his neck and he slumped in his chair paralysed . |
| 24 | I saw that despite his good looks Syl was a little too short and a little too fat , that when he went about his garden stripped to bathing trunks he aroused not desire but embarrassment . |
| 25 | The funeral of Jason McFarlane , 21 , of Friar Crescent , Darlington , who died after his motorbike smashed into a parked van on the A1 near Gateshead takes place on Monday . |
| 26 | A NEWLY-WED died after his car collided with a wagon on the A66 , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 27 | She was dark and beautiful , and when she laughed with her eyes shut and showed her white teeth , her skin looked even darker . |
| 28 | Darmid fell with his throat torn out and a grypesh worrying at it . |
| 29 | He stood looking down at her as she lay with her hair spread out on the pillow , her eyes still half shut by the heaviness of sleep and her lips smiling . |
| 30 | On the following morning , Elinor lay with her eyes closed , apparently sleeping . |