Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] and [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey , it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits . |
| 2 | Mercer and Bambi chose a centrally located table and were soon joined by their less than happy offspring , Sheridan audibly saying , ‘ I do n't see why we have to sit in here when we have our own private car . ’ |
| 3 | It was named tyrothricin and was later shown to contain two polypeptide components , which were named gramicidin and tyrocidine . |
| 4 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 5 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 6 | This process of taking information which is normally destined for the screen and sending it somewhere else is called redirection and is usually done with the > symbol . |
| 7 | Forster shows Charlotte as someone who has never known love and is emotionally dried out because of it . |
| 8 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 9 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 10 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 11 | The latest revelation about the Government 's courting of minority parties came amid persistent speculation at Westminster that , on the Europe question , Mr Major has lost control and is effectively running a minority Government . |