Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 2 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 3 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 4 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 5 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 6 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 7 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 8 | I 've tricked them into working for me . |
| 9 | It was reported that , when ZANU-PF held primary elections in mid-February to select its candidates , several senior party officials , including Joyce Mujuru ( Minister of Community Development and Co-operatives ) , had been defeated , but that Mugabe had reinstated them after nullifying the results . |
| 10 | They are taught nothing about helping people to die . |
| 11 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 12 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 13 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 14 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 15 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 16 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 17 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 18 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 19 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 20 | Mime ( in Les Misérables ) , a big leading role ( Professor Higgins ) , a virtuoso turn ( as an American businessman in Youth At The Helm , he had impressed everyone by talking into five telephones at once — everybody in Taibach talked about it : Cis heard accounts ‘ up and down the street ’ ) , work on the radio and , above all , those scrupulous sessions in Ma Smith 's front room and on the high hills , schoolteacher and pupil , two sons of miners in Wales , striving to speak the language of Shakespeare faultlessly . |
| 21 | Ian Lang and Malcolm Rifkind have amazed everyone by surviving , but they have only marginally improved their party 's position , from nine to 11 seats . |
| 22 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 23 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 24 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 25 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 26 | While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . |
| 27 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 28 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 29 | He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . |
| 30 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |