Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some countries have a bad reputation for crime and expatriates are naturally concerned about their chances of being mugged or having their home burgled . |
| 2 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 3 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 4 | If a charging unit is suddenly confronted by emerging Fanatics , leaving Fanatics in front of the chargers and between them and their target unit , then the chargers can either remain halted or complete their charge . |
| 5 | Neither would consciously have recognized or construed their position in this way . |
| 6 | Could it be — could it possibly be — that he had poisoned or drugged my wine ? |
| 7 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 8 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 9 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 10 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 11 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 12 | In all my past letters to the News , never ever have I forgotten or denied my roots . |
| 13 | It was untenable for us to continue to support and put energy into a political movement which in no ways respected or reflected our separate identity and struggle as Irish women . |
| 14 | And even if no fingerprints could be found on it , even if several of the tourists had already discarded or misplaced their own sheets , there would not be too many Americans , surely , who regularly wrote their sevens with a continental bar across the downstroke . |
| 15 | He caught males and either shortened or lengthened their tails . |
| 16 | For this ‘ crime ’ , many of them were fined or had their goods confiscated , and others were imprisoned . |
| 17 | BAINBRIDGE is a handsome little village on the Hawes-Leyburn road with a broad village green , complete with village stocks , where miscreants of olden days , instead of being fined or having their licences endorsed , were pelted with rotten garbage and sometimes even worse . |
| 18 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |
| 19 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 20 | Here they wrote up their interviews and observations , edited them , created artwork and designed and printed their pages . |
| 21 | One factoring company , Union Discount Commercial Finance ( UDCF ) , reorganised and relaunched its activities last year after running into problems with some of its clients . |
| 22 | This was reorganised and changed its title in the following year , and again in May 1918 : like its British counterparts it drew its manpower from a variety of sources — the universities , the army and the professions — as well as from diplomacy . |
| 23 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 24 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 25 | In the name of multiprocessing on the desktop , the company 's new buzzword , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp last week went ahead as expected and unveiled its latest Sparcstation 10s ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 26 | The chapters that follow seek to outline the ways in which I have pursued and developed my own management skills , and the lessons that I have learnt on the way . |
| 27 | The diaphragm is usually made in such a way that the hole size can be varied and decreasing its size is called ‘ stopping down ’ . |
| 28 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces . |
| 29 | The Quintín Lame Movement , an indigenous guerrilla movement founded in 1984 and a member of the CNGSB , formally disarmed and demobilized its estimated 130 members on May 31 . |
| 30 | the coast road curled and shed its cast-offs |