Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 3 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 4 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 5 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 6 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 7 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 8 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 9 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 10 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 11 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 12 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 13 | ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too . |
| 14 | For instance it is offering a number of parallel application development packages — Linda , Express and PVM — alongside the AIX Parallel Environment Software that the company has developed itself for the SP1 . |
| 15 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 16 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 17 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 18 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 19 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 20 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 21 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |
| 22 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 23 | And sadly , Olympic rowers are n't the only ones feeling the pinch … on the eve of a new international rugby season Gloucester 's World Cup hero Mike Teague is seeking compensation from the sport 's governing body Iron man Mike claims the shoulder injury he suffered while playing for England has stopped him from working as a builder and he 's lost between three and five thousand pounds in earnings . |
| 24 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 25 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 26 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 27 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 28 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 29 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 30 | L = teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit . |