Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taught them how to pick a lock , steal a car , to shoplift … |
| 2 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 3 | Then if I get caught I just get a caution and that 's it . |
| 4 | Once installed you then have the choice of running the Thesaurus as a standalone program or as a memory resident one . |
| 5 | Until the ‘ official ’ pilot schemes are instituted we only have the experience of the formative approaches in the UK to guide us on how appraisal is to be conducted . |
| 6 | ‘ How come we suddenly need a cox ? ’ |
| 7 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 8 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 9 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 10 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 11 | Where a successful claim is made against the vendor for breach of warranty under the sale agreement , adjustments will be made which effectively reduce the consideration for capital gains tax purposes by the amount of the damages paid to the purchaser . |
| 12 | Additions and deletions can be made which always leave the tree balanced . |
| 13 | I 've noticed you always used a machine . |
| 14 | I 've just noticed she actually uses the sentence being a Green Party supporter is n't meant to appeal to everyone . |
| 15 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 16 | Too many people twigged — or at least thought they did — that he had done it only to open the door of Number 10 . |
| 17 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 18 | If speed 3 is selected it literally blows the water out from the spray bar and would turn the vat contents over at least 12 times an hour . |
| 19 | By the end of 1929 the First report was published : slim and hastily written it yet established a frame of reference for the London region . |
| 20 | The superintendent asked Jane Pargeter whether she had seen anyone else leave the party . |
| 21 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 22 | When liquid helium was first made it soon became an essential laboratory tool as a coolant in low temperature experiments . |
| 23 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 24 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've told them too ignore the huge transfer fees the Italians all seem to carry , ’ he said . |
| 26 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 27 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 28 | The wise organization now engages a multi- disciplinary team up to three years before the system is commissioned which carefully investigates every aspect and agrees decisions with every individual affected — both inside and outside the organization . |
| 29 | The latter , built of brick and glass in the functional and unelaborate manner of the early 1970s , were originally planned to occupy adjacent premises but the numbers of infant children were such that another larger building was needed which now stands a few hundred , wind-swept , yards away . |
| 30 | Well ha ha had I known I would have told you not to take a copy you see . |