Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 2 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 3 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 4 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 5 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 6 | Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see . |
| 7 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 8 | Belinda had the case-file in front her and had handed it over without a word almost before he had realised who she was . |
| 9 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 10 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 11 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 12 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 13 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
| 14 | After the doctor , nurses and others have rushed to the scene to settle the girl with a syringe and have taken her off in an ambulance , Mrs Turpin goes home . |
| 15 | I have discussed this with Simon and have passed it on to Paul Ralph for him to gather the components together for you . |
| 16 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 17 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |