Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were given permission and were destroyed as the herd of pigs drowned in the lake . |
| 2 | The dry/treated hair variant is particularly good for revitalising lacklustre locks and chemically treated hair that 's lost its shine . |
| 3 | Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose . |
| 4 | Hooker , of Chestnut Drive , Marton , Middlesbrough , was fined £290 and was ordered to pay £30 costs . |
| 5 | The curious feature of the British constitution is that Britain has democratized institutions that were created in an undemocratic age . |
| 6 | Present day ‘ time travellers ’ step into a specially designed car and are taken on an exciting trip through more than 1,000 years of Carrickfergus history . |
| 7 | If only he had not caught nits and been sent home from school , fallen in the beck , lost his shoes , been attacked by Rosie or injured his hand just because he was too cowardly to follow Buddie 's instructions . |
| 8 | Neil Ashurst , 24 , of Sycamore Drive , Brotton , was fined £630 and was banned from driving for two years by Whitby magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving while drunk , without L-plates and insurance and also while not being supervised . |
| 9 | How Brampton and Vechey had probably not committed suicide but been murdered and that Allingham 's supposed death from natural causes was probably the murderer striking again . |
| 10 | THE JULIE WARD inquest ended yesterday with counsel for the Kenyan state still maintaining she might have committed suicide or been killed by animals . |
| 11 | If he would have received £10,000 but was found to be 25% contributorily negligent , his damages will be £7,500 . |
| 12 | Elgar was n't allowed a dog by his wife at the time and he sort of adopted Dan and was fascinated by him . |
| 13 | Many drivers cheerfully collected loads that were offered from all over the city , and gradually with their help and that of certain ‘ able-bodied men and women ’ mountains of books accumulated in the Davidson Room , while the Undercroft cupboard soon became a veritable Aladdin 's Cave of ‘ Unwanted Gifts ’ . |
| 14 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 15 | An enquiry of the publisher might furnish you with material for another item ( with another cartoon , please , e.g. of the one with the girl who has collected toadstools and is saying scornfully to her friend who has gathered mushrooms : ‘ Dump those , they 're harmless ’ ) . |
| 16 | There had been sightings , his family was powerful enough to keep him hidden and safe from the inevitable hanging ‘ should he show his face on the shores of Albion again' — a favourite phrase of Joseph 's , picked up from a knife-grinder whose preoccupation with Bligh , the Bounty and the Mutiny had almost equalled Joseph 's as witnessed in a fierce contest of informational prowess contested in the snug of the Bull in Lorton where the knife-grinder had eventually conceded defeat and been given several unexpected commissions ( including one from the vicar of Cockermouth who disliked Joseph intensely and produced a cluster of blunt knives and dullest scissors to prove it ) as compensation . |
| 17 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 18 | Another ultrasonic downhole inspection tool developed by AEA for the oil industry has undergone trials and is expected to make a major impact on traditional mechanical inspection techniques . |
| 19 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 20 | His victim took one disbelieving look at her unlikely rescuer and then , before Folly could reassure her , the girl had turned tail and was running nimbly down the street . |
| 21 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 22 | The first one is to manufacture the people to buy the moderately priced poison that 's brewed in the second one . |
| 23 | ‘ Hitler has turned east and is rushing tanks in the direction of Moscow . ’ |
| 24 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 25 | Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity . |
| 26 | You can link object with drawn lines that are constrained in some way or other . |
| 27 | Five soldiers and two other lieutenants from the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion were judged only to have obeyed orders and were acquitted . |
| 28 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 29 | And then me grandfather suddenly appeared , many years later , when they 'd got children that were grown up then , all of them , he appeared to these girls , would you believe it ? |
| 30 | When you 've got documents that are printed in Times Roman and very nicely formatted in WordPerfect , a spreadsheet printed out in Courier shatters the illusion . |