Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them . |
| 2 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 3 | Russia , for her part , was possessed of almost limitless manpower , but this was in large measure negated by her chronically inefficient rail system , so large numbers of men could be transported across country only with difficulty and by laborious stages . |
| 4 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 5 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 6 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 7 | But the robots carry more formal titles painted on their sides , like ABB or Kawasaki . |
| 8 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 9 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 10 | A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end . |
| 11 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 12 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 13 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 14 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 15 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 16 | We got a donation given to us . |
| 17 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 18 | To fix the burns you have skin stripped off your thigh , then put over all your wounds as a natural plaster and left there for ten days . |
| 19 | As to claims that religious education was inadequate , he pledged the Movement ‘ to investigate any individual case referred to them ’ and promised ‘ to leave no stone unturned to make the most satisfactory arrangements possible , . |
| 20 | The state of the kitchen registered inside her mind somewhere . |
| 21 | On the other hand , as his awareness of his own homosexual tendencies developed during his teens , the deep emotional dependence on his mother was complicated by a contrary feeling of resentment , based no doubt on guilt . |
| 22 | Four trees were constructed from the same word lists , and candidate strings from a test sentence checked against them . |
| 23 | This explains why English has recourse to a preposition , a word whose function is to establish a relation between two words when no mechanism of incidence is provided for by the words themselves , in order to make the infinitive incident to a support situated outside its event time . |
| 24 | A few seconds later , he gasped in realization : had n't the scientist referred to his tardy colleague as ‘ he ’ ? |
| 25 | Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent . |
| 26 | This was a well researched and market estimated project : for the reasons given above it ended with the sale of EMI to another company . |
| 27 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal . |
| 28 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill , I would allow this appeal . |
| 29 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 30 | My Lords , for the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , I would dismiss this appeal . |