Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 2 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 3 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 4 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |
| 5 | This artist differs from the others reviewed here in that she has not used a gendered figure in her drawings and has given form to the contradictions of intuitive emotion and insight in non-figurative sculpture . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke was questioned closely on whether there had been any consultation with Mrs Shephard . |