Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We got a donation given to us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 , . |
| 14 | The state of the kitchen registered inside her mind somewhere . |
| 15 | Four trees were constructed from the same word lists , and candidate strings from a test sentence checked against them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A few seconds later , he gasped in realization : had n't the scientist referred to his tardy colleague as ‘ he ’ ? |
| 18 | As for the poll I think Gav is just a little bit biased in his choice of Cuntona , as im sure anyone who has seen him will confirm Gavs evening job is actually as a Cuntona look a like you know posing for pictures for the Sun with an easel and tweeds . |
| 19 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 20 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 21 | He does not in practice refuse to entertain appeals solely because the decision of the local planning authority was based on a direction given by him . |
| 22 | The tip of the walking stick plunged through it . |
| 23 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 24 | This perversion arises when a conscious creature becomes more interested in itself than in God … the sin of pride ’ ; compare Melkor in the music of the Ainur seeking ‘ to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself ’ . |
| 25 | It moves by jet-propulsion , squirting water through a siphon in a variation of the current-creating technique developed by its filter-feeding relatives . |
| 26 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 27 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 28 | He helped the protesting wizard climb until he was hanging upside down , robe tucked into his britches , Kring dangling from one hand . |
| 29 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 30 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |