Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the injury ca n't be mended and vets say she 'll have to be put down . |
| 2 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 3 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 4 | Mann said it could be done and Denega drove him to the chapel to see ‘ if the small cracks in the facade could be enlarged ’ . |
| 5 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 6 | No warning was given and police say they face an impossible task in fighting this kind of terrorism . |
| 7 | It 's a feature that might come in handy when building an annual report : the user selects a field and chooses the added ‘ delegate ’ option from the menu , and can then send the spreadsheet to a colleague with the field highlighted and instructions to fill it in . |
| 8 | I said , I said thing is I said last time everybody thought Carla was gon na get highly commended or honours do you remember ? |
| 9 | BASS : Because B has already been used and Paul plays it too . |
| 10 | But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it . |
| 11 | Their eyes were still meshed and Kath found she was unable to look away . |
| 12 | One sense is an obvious one , but the other is not obvious , and possibly for that reason , although they are radically different senses , their difference is not recognised and people suppose they are dealing with an unambiguous expression . |
| 13 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 14 | The first of the four visitors entered and Nicholson recognised him immediately as Bernard Clinton , the MP . |
| 15 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 16 | He and Suzi have quarrelled and Georg believes it is all my fault . ’ |
| 17 | For one thing the lamp , the light 's gone and Tony got me a new one but it was n't |
| 18 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 19 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 20 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 21 | What if there was only one bird left and Maureen claimed it as hers ? |
| 22 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 23 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 24 | It satisfied God 's honour — a price had to be paid and Christ paid it . |
| 25 | It was clear that her father had been wrongly advised and Emily thought she knew exactly who was responsible . |
| 26 | The new-look Cockerton Band Club , Cockerton , has been completely refurbished and members say it is now one of the top venues in the area . |
| 27 | It 's more than two months since Jim Eggleton was murdered and police say they 're still no closer to solving the case . |