Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he explained about last night ? ’ |
| 2 | Within this frame of mind exhortations from well-intentioned others to ‘ tell me what 's wrong ’ or ‘ to seek some help ’ may be heard as another confirmation of one 's own inadequacy . |
| 3 | The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King 's past only after it had given its verdict . |
| 4 | We 've heard about object-oriented technology for 20 years , but it 's only just now beginning to take hold . |
| 5 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 6 | Major 's reply suggested that , as an interested visitor from another solar system , he had heard about human personality but regretfully had no first-hand experience of this rare bird , though he was prepared to extend it every reasonable courtesy . |
| 7 | That 's when — you know , you 've heard about supply-side economics . |
| 8 | This was the first she 'd heard about any programme notes . |
| 9 | But Hermens said he was confident Krabbe would be cleared after he had talked to leading athletics officials and heard about another report from the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) which also classifies the drug as a stimulant . |
| 10 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 11 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 12 | Fiona ; Yeh I 've heard about this Council Tax , so then it 's true if you 're all students living together then you do n't have to pay ? great ! ! |
| 13 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 14 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 15 | I 've never I 've never heard about this thing called cos squared X , you explain it to me what do what 's it all about ? |
| 16 | Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 18 | You have heard about electric charge , current , magnetic field , etc . |
| 19 | But instead of discussing such low-cost , appropriate approaches , the International Workshop on Earthen Buildings in Seismic Areas , sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and held in Albuquerque in May 1981 , heard about high technology solutions like ‘ prestressed adobe ’ and ‘ reinforced poured adobe ’ . |
| 20 | Births registered during one month in each area were randomly sampled . |
| 21 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 22 | At the end of the session prices between DM240,000 ( £96,000 ; $153,600 ) and DM380,000 ( £152,000 ; $243,200 ) were also realised for abstract oil paintings from the 1950s by Willi Baumeister and Ernst Wilhelm Nay . |
| 23 | The counselling and family work skills taught through social work leadership to all team members . |
| 24 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 25 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 26 | As well as using the equivalent of ‘ which ’ to establish linkage , as in ‘ receiving the request which one of the parties presented to it ’ , the following verb is further suffixed for pronominal reference ( literally : ‘ which one of the parties presented-it-masculine to it-feminine ’ ) . |
| 27 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 28 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 29 | It is not so much thinking and reason that spring to mind as involvement , a sense of intimacy and harmony with the materials at hand , developed through long experience and commitment . |
| 30 | In addition , your skills in Writing will be developed through regular interpretation work ( reading passages and giving answers ) and writing essays and reports . |