Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 2 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 3 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 4 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 5 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 6 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 7 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 8 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 9 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 10 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 11 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 12 | You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you . |
| 13 | He 'll be sorry he 's treated me like this , Ellen ! ’ |
| 14 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 15 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 16 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 19 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 20 | He could have broken me in two with one hand , but he could not break my spirit . |
| 21 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 22 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 23 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 24 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 25 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 26 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 27 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 28 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 29 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 30 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |