Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small and cramped although it was , it reminded her a little of Papa 's office back home : a room where a man obviously worked . |
| 2 | He would not have disagreed either with the implications about the unfairness of Providence ; we should note that a recurrent prospect in The Lord of the Rings is for Frodo to be taken by Sauron and tormented till he too goes ‘ under the shadow ’ , becomes a petty ‘ wraith ’ himself , worn out by addiction and privation and torture and fear to a state of nothingness like that of ‘ the haggard king ’ of Minas Morgul . |
| 3 | Gold and silver , once reserved for the service of cults and sovereigns , were displayed as plate by corporations like the City of London , the Inns of Court the City Companies ( fig. 40 ) or the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge and embodied as medals awarded by academies and other institutions for distinguished contributions to many fields of learning and professional activities ( Plate K ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we played better against Blackpool and lost but it 's still nice to get three points . |
| 5 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 6 | Simon Cormack had been fifteen days in his underground cell , and thirteen since he had answered the question about Aunt Emily and known that his father was trying to get him out . |
| 7 | Different sociologists have adopted these different views , and others fall in between , but it is certain that any theory of stratification owes a great debt to Marx 's account of classes , even if the sociologist ends up rejecting Marx as mistaken or overtaken by history . |
| 8 | They worship rather God as symbolized or personified in those forms . |
| 9 | From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London . |
| 10 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 11 | Several NATO representatives suggested that " NATO could lend material support or even troops to the CSCE if needed and if agreed by our member countries " , in the words of the Dutch Foreign Minister , Hans van den Broek . |
| 12 | In the note she said she was on her way to Pollensa as arranged and would phone him later . |
| 13 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 14 | In January 1976 , the Phalange overran Karantina and killed or deported the inhabitants . |
| 15 | It did very well with English Language Teaching sales er , in Europe and Asia as planned and its medical and professional sponsored adver erm , business in , in Japan grew much quicker than we expected . |
| 16 | But The Smiths now found that success tends to complicate situations which made their initial stance of well meant integrity and the desire to do things differently ( ‘ We do n't wish to become pop stars ’ ) a virtual impossibility . |
| 17 | Canada Tenn courts are constructed from a natural rock occurring in the USA and laid and bound on a dynamic or engineered base . |
| 18 | ‘ The Other Israel ’ is an hour long , fact filled video imported from America and produced and directed by patriotic Christians . |
| 19 | We also append the quotation from BS Computers for the supply of an Apricot Lan-Station as discussed and agreed at the January 1993 Computing Sub-Group . |
| 20 | The dogs are taken to kennels at Langley Moor and destroyed if they 're not claimed within a week and can not be sold . |
| 21 | These specimens were trapped inside a confined roof space in a house in Wales and eaten while still in the trap . |
| 22 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 23 | When working in Canada , I occasionally transferred babies in-utero by jet plane over distances of around 800 miles safely and here in Downpatrick we transfer babies in-utero to Belfast when required and transfer them safely . |