Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's like a big pallet all surrounded and he got a big pond down the bottom it 's erm near Grimston Common |
| 2 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 3 | It was ten years since Jacklin had won and they 'd adopted Seve . |
| 4 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ If the ball is there to be won and you 've got to go in to win that ball for your team , then maybe you are going to be in a 40-60 situation — and you 've still got to go in . |
| 6 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 7 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 8 | The coffee at the cafe had perked him up long enough to tackle the reviews but then heat and alcohol had won and he had nodded off . |
| 9 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 10 | My Thanks are due , ’ Prince wrote to Jardine on 7 April 1840 , ‘ for your instructions respecting the specimens in spirits , which I have since carefully examined , separated and supplied with fresh spirit ; many of them I regret to add are much decomposed and I fear some may at last prove useless . ’ |
| 11 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 12 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 13 | Last week , an announcement on er further steps on acid rain — six thousand million pounds ; I mean there 's big , big money in there already committed and I 've no doubt that when the need is shown , there 'll be greater money still spent — which will either be taxpayer 's money or customer 's money . |
| 14 | ( a ) He can arrest where he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an arrestable offence has been committed and he has reasonable grounds for suspecting the person to be guilty of the offence . |
| 15 | if he believes that a criminal offence has been committed and he believes that the officer ought to be charged . |
| 16 | Her colour deepened and she bit her lip and looked down at her plate . |
| 17 | God , he was so gorgeous … her hands were moving on to his strong thoat , thrusting into his black hair , she was losing her head again as the kiss deepened and she heard him give a low growl of harsh excitement , his mouth increasing the pressure until Rachel was obliterated by him , dazed , clutching him with shaking hands , gasping hoarsely against his mouth , feeling his strong hands move swiftly up to her breasts to stroke her nipples and force a long hoarse cry of exquisite desire from her . |
| 18 | But his scowl deepened and she sobered a little . |
| 19 | The woman 's high colour deepened and she fumbled with the up of wine . |
| 20 | As for his colleagues , Mr Smith said : ‘ We 're all agreed that we can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . |
| 21 | It quotes John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , in support , and John Smith , the Shadow Chancellor , as saying : ‘ We can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . ’ |
| 22 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 23 | Propositions 53 — 71 are the application of this thought to expectation ( for example , 56 : ‘ If someone could see the expectation itself — he would have to see what is being expected ’ ; 60 : ‘ Reality is not a property still missing in what is expected and which accedes to it when one 's expectation comes about ’ ) ; 331–70 , to colours ( for example , 331 : ‘ One is tempted to justify rules of grammar by sentences like ‘ But there really are four primary colours . |
| 24 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 25 | The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres . |
| 26 | For example if the business primarily sells paperclips does it include the design , manufacture , packing and sale of the paperclips or is it simply a sales outlet ? ( 2 ) Second , understand what assets the vendor uses in order to conduct the business being sold , where these assets are located and who owns them . |
| 27 | Out of the original hundred houses this was the last one to be occupied and we saw this being built , erm right from the time that it was a plot of land and we knew it was ours |
| 28 | The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done . |
| 29 | The local youth centre raised the money for us to have a phone installed and we got a FreeFone number for the Exeter and Devon area . |
| 30 | A septic tank has already been installed and I have a quotation — amounting to some thousands of pounds , I 'm afraid — to drill for water . |