Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 2 | The story was obliquely based on the death of Philip 's father and told of miners digging their way to their trapped workmates . |
| 3 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 4 | Until fairly recently the Law Society ( in common with the governing bodies of other professions ) frowned upon solicitors advertising their services in any way . |
| 5 | As far as access to one 's financial input is concerned , the Companies Act 1981 ( now consolidated into the 1985 Act ) lifted many of the restrictions which previously existed on companies purchasing their members ' shares . |
| 6 | The decline to 1981 had involved 1217 jobs lost as a result of closures and 2218 lost from establishments reducing their work forces , with 805 gains from new establishments and 234 from establishments increasing their work forces . |
| 7 | Viscount Althorp said of reporters covering his engagement : ‘ They wanted to get back , bring me down , and make Victoria 's [ his wife 's ] life a misery . ’ |
| 8 | Q : In your October edition , David Hernon wrote regarding problems accessing his hard disk . |
| 9 | For those whose scholarship he respected he was prepared to go to endless trouble , but to those whom he suspected of pretensions exceeding their knowledge or understanding he gave short shrift . |