Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some moorlands the chemicals which were washed down have solidified into a thin ‘ cement-like ’ layer , or iron pan . |
| 2 | But , unusually , the venture will do everything from research and design through to manufacture compared with the now notorious ‘ screwdriver ’ assembly-only factories set up by many foreign investors in Britain . |
| 3 | Runners , coaches and athletics writers the world over have puzzled at the success of Mota and 38-year-old Pedrosa . |
| 4 | I think this whole thing of racing off to get divorced at the first snag you hit seems pathetic . ’ |
| 5 | Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life . |
| 6 | Now obsession with locking up has led to a very special door opening for a seven year old boy with a very unusual hobby . |
| 7 | The menu , when our waitress finally rustled one up seemed limited to the sort of dishes which once gave British cuisine a bad name . |
| 8 | I ended up getting carried to the station with my feet handcuffed , my hands handcuffed , lain in the bottom of the van . |
| 9 | Operation of the C 2 rotation axis shifts H a to where H b was , and vice versa , so the corresponding pair of arrows ends up reversed compared to the starting pair . |
| 10 | Some emergency systems require operation of both the normal canopy catch and the jettison lever , and even then need a strong push up to get rid of the canopy . |
| 11 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 12 | Carry On Cruising followed at the not inappropriate speed of knots . |
| 13 | On other occasions where the time out has resulted from the child 's angry refusal to do something , he or she can volunteer to do it properly and thus end the punishment . |
| 14 | The amazing Dr Dichter made one of his most celebrated discoveries for the automobile industry : that a man is seduced into the showrooms by a ‘ mistress ’ ( a convertible ) but comes out having settled for a ‘ wife ’ ( a saloon or sedan ) . |
| 15 | But already , experts are working flat out to get rid of the annoying and potentially dangerous pests . |
| 16 | He turned out to have escaped from an open prison in Dorking . |
| 17 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |
| 18 | It turned out to have come from a machine in a nearby corridor . |
| 19 | Disputes over opting out have ended in the High Court on several occasions . |
| 20 | The sequence of studies we have carried out have derived from the tools available to us in the context of psychological and linguistic expertise . |
| 21 | By now the disapproving looks Diana Lanchester had been earning had turned to ones of open curiosity as those around became intrigued by the confrontation . |
| 22 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 23 | They were about to become locked in a bitter legal battle for the future of the child they both loved . |
| 24 | Much of the power and prestige it went on to gain derived from the fact that unlike other such organizations which have come and gone , it managed to keep its numbers extremely low , thus giving this claim some credibility . |