Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 3 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 4 | Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was . |
| 5 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 6 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 7 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 8 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 9 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 10 | Methods of measuring cost will be developed where they do not already exist , and will be applied to scheme data . |
| 11 | Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant . |
| 12 | cos if you were stopped or you had an accident |
| 13 | In developing a celebrated liberal position , H. L. A. Hart argues that criminal laws can only be justified where they deter harm or offensive behaviour to others , or , in limited instances of ‘ legal paternalism ’ , where the laws discourage serious harm to oneself . |
| 14 | In general there seems to be a tendency for structural rock surfaces to be stripped where they approximate to the profile of the wavecut bench . |
| 15 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 16 | TRACE is also turned off if an error is reported or you press |
| 17 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 18 | They have n't forgotten where they came from and also who put them where they are today . |
| 19 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 20 | Rumour had it that although he made his home in an unoccupied derelict house near the CPR docks , he was really very wealthy , having buried his family fortune long ago and quite forgotten where he had left it . |
| 21 | Can I just ask your permission for our proceedings this afternoon to be tape recorded by Caroline , and I 've forgotten where you come from , Caroline ? |
| 22 | Have you ever put something of value in a ‘ safe place ’ , and then forgotten where you put it ? |
| 23 | Supt Phil Staples said : ‘ We would however advise motorists that the police will be operating with tow-away trucks and vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction to pedestrians and other road users will be impounded . ’ |
| 24 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 25 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 26 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 27 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 28 | If you have ever wished that you had a third hand to make notes we have the answer . |
| 29 | Last night there was more evidence of the couple 's unhappiness when it was disclosed that they had a furious row at Balmoral shortly before the ‘ love tapes ’ were published . |
| 30 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |