Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't understand how Constance has cut herself off from all her friends . |
| 3 | It has involved itself energetically in such issues as pub opening hours and the additives and adjuncts used in the brewing process . |
| 4 | Mine has served me well for many years . |
| 5 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 6 | ‘ Yanto has sent something over for yon , ’ Mary said softly . |
| 7 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 8 | His tone suggested he 'd caught her out in some minor misdemeanour , Loretta thought angrily — putting penny coins in a parking meter , or dodging fares on the underground . |
| 9 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 10 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 11 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
| 12 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 13 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 14 | You may deny having done anything wrong at all . |
| 15 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 16 | I think we must have bunged it up with some gunge ! |
| 17 | If he had been able to , how gladly he would have hired himself out to either of the wealthy men whose daughters had died . |
| 18 | He has ploughed the land many times and could have set something off at any time . |
| 19 | It 's such a bizarre thing , sliding an object over guitar strings — I mean , who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ? |
| 20 | Who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ? ’ |
| 21 | Should have finished them off in that first |
| 22 | It was typical of everything Louise was that she should have thrown herself away on that dreadful Randall . |
| 23 | You wo n't have put it out like that . |
| 24 | ‘ But something else must have started you off on this search . |
| 25 | I would never have taken anything out of that book that you had put in because I would n't have known what it was about . |
| 26 | ‘ They would n't have left it behind in such a contemptuous fashion , ’ said Golding . |
| 27 | Perhaps I should have deduced something immediately from that coincidence . |
| 28 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 29 | She should never have shut herself away in that dreadful place . |
| 30 | Note how the horns , in the final chord , complete the harmony of the rest of the brass where it threatens to sound thin , having doubled it up to that point . |