Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If tempers have flared , and especially if you have been badly treated by your employer , the urge to retaliate with every means at your disposal will be enormous . |
| 2 | He that in Obedience to this Command of God , subdued , tilled and sowed any part of it , thereby annexed to it something that was his Property , which another had not Title to , nor could without injury take from him . |
| 3 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 4 | Lucy felt embarrassed and more than a little annoyed with her aunt . |
| 5 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 6 | The monument to Chaloner Chute , also designed by him and in a seventeenth-century classical style , was eventually erected after his death by his cousin T. L. Chute . |
| 7 | CHEESE AND TOMATO : Hard cheese is n't moist enough to encourage bugs to grow , and tomatoes are rarely contaminated from their greenhouses . |
| 8 | These people are rarely honoured in their lifetime . |
| 9 | Any course modules successfully completed throughout their career can then be included in a record of achievement , ensuring an up to date record of professional development undertaken . |
| 10 | Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized . |
| 11 | Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels . |
| 12 | Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery . |
| 13 | Constance was getting a little irritated with her friend . |
| 14 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he agreed , seeming a little irritated by her interruption , as if , as when he was giving a lecture , he preferred to hold the floor . |
| 15 | Anna Zborowska posed for two nude paintings , presumably painted in her rooms at the Sunny Hotel with Lunia acting as chaperone . |
| 16 | I confess I was a little shaken by my playmate 's tone . |
| 17 | MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes . |
| 18 | But the result is that the plaintiffs … fail to show that the document was properly explained to her . |
| 19 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 20 | She sued the plaintiff in battery , on the ground that she had not truly consented to the operation , as its effect had not been properly explained to her . |
| 21 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 22 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 23 | In advance of the fighting he warned both sides not to take military action , even though Egypt 's prior closing of the Straits of Tiran was widely regarded as itself an act of aggression . |
| 24 | He had been with UNACO for two years and , despite his maverick tendencies , he was widely regarded by his peers as the best field operative in the organization . |
| 25 | I snap , eyeing the lobsters , and observing a dozen fat oysters , discreetly arranged around them , which I had n't noticed before . |
| 26 | Throughout his career he seemed to be around when it happened but the finger of accusation rarely pointed in his direction . |
| 27 | Quaint tools such as cockles , bows , strikes and pages are skilfully welded by our master craftsmen to this day . |
| 28 | Seconded from the Foreign Office as her deputy private secretary , Powell was soon reckoned by his former colleagues to have ‘ gone native ’ , and was widely resented for his continued and easy access to the Prime Minister 's ear , into which he appeared to be whispering something which was definitely not the authorized FO version . |
| 29 | Any titbits would be humbly placed at my feet . |
| 30 | A week 's filming at a sandpit near Leighton Buzzard , in Bedfordshire , where the Victors tried to destroy the Bats ' car , was beset with difficulties when strong winds constantly filled actors ' and technicians ' eyes with sand , but the scenes were eventually completed to everyone 's satisfaction . |