Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French bank originally heard about the headhunters they had employed by word-of-mouth contact , and BICC had based their choice — perhaps more dangerously — on a review of headhunting firms ' own literature . |
| 2 | They were only caught after being stopped for a burglary they did n't commit . |
| 3 | French farmers should be punished for the way they treated our sheep farmers . |
| 4 | However , as I am conscious of the strong feeling that the hon. Lady has registered on behalf of her constituents , I assure her that before a plant can be registered for an incinerator it must comply with the emissions standards enforced by Her Majesty 's industrial pollution inspectorate . |
| 5 | Once you have registered for the programme you will be invited to the GEP INDUCTION DAY where you will hear about the benefits and indeed the difficulties of self employment and will be introduced to your LOCAL GEP advisor . |
| 6 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 7 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 8 | Er , hello there , my name 's Mike , well let's go over to the weather with Winsy , no Winsy , oh Rita 's dropped dead , she 's jumped off a cliff we think , we think |
| 9 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 10 | But the argument should be recognized for the fiction it is . |
| 11 | Each one constitutes a separate ethnic unit , has a self-sufficient economy , a flag , a Supreme Soviet , a council of ministers and , most important , is placed between the area we call Russia and the world outside . |
| 12 | Predictably , excessive travel , the fact that county pros are n't better treated for the work they do compared to golfers or tennis players , and the lack of consideration for players in the winter . |
| 13 | you 're visiting a War or MOD Disablement Pensioner who is being treated for the disablement he or she is getting the pension for or |
| 14 | For an elliptical crack Inglis 's stress concentration factor is : Though this was calculated for an ellipse it turns out that it is very nearly accurate for any sharp re-entrant or notch . |
| 15 | If goodwill is treated as an asset it should be amortised systematically over the period of its useful economic life . |
| 16 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 17 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |
| 18 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 19 | Such adaptations grab our attention because the characters seem so well designed for the job they perform . |
| 20 | First , and most important , stick with fonts that were designed for the printer you are using even if this means giving up some of the typographic niceties . |
| 21 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 22 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 23 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 24 | Both teams were applauded for the way they kept going forward , and there was only one distasteful moment when Goodman went in far too late on Chivers and was deservedly booked . |
| 25 | In order to see how their horses had fared during the winter they devised a gruelling race , the Kiplingcotes Derby . |
| 26 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 27 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 28 | Hand picked for the job I should think . |
| 29 | During his first week as a raw stevedore , Cliff Barrett the dock foreman , had come aboard the ship he was working on and said something insulting and disrespectful to him . |
| 30 | A few pupils in some classes were interviewed about the methods they used to answer the questions and most used doubling and halving as expected . |