Example sentences of "a [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a propped skull , |
| 2 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 3 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 4 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
| 5 | Lineker showed him how it is done , playing deep and feeding Samways and Allen with slick passes that brought two excellent saves from Nixon , a disallowed goal by Samways , and a reaction from the Tranmere defence which was somewhat reminiscent of a metal crusher in a scrapyard . |
| 6 | In the tax computation this amount is added back as a disallowed expense and hence the company obtains no tax relief . |
| 7 | Theirs was a witnessed to faith in ‘ the importance of the spiritual , the sanctity of marriage , respect for human life , appreciation of each person 's dignity , justice for all , fair sharing of resources , and the need to think of others . |
| 8 | An immediate sternal thump during a witnessed cardiac arrest may revert VT ( 11–25% ) and rarely VF to sinus rhythm . |
| 9 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 10 | Against the odds John succeeded in drawing her out of a withdrawn reaction . |
| 11 | The disabled may sometimes need help themselves in overcoming feelings of bitterness , despair or resentment towards the rest of society , and help in adjusting to and accepting the consequences of disablement without succumbing to a withdrawn resignation or unnecessary isolation . |
| 12 | I had the sense of a withdrawn person , a loner . |
| 13 | His eyes flickered momentarily , then he retreated behind a withdrawn expression which gave absolutely nothing away . |
| 14 | But Quinn , playing a withdrawn role behind the two main forwards responded with one of his best performances for Northern Ireland ; easily the man of the match . |
| 15 | I 'd have ended in zee guttair as a clapped out lush |
| 16 | The LTA seems to have a Rolls Royce body with a clapped out engine that is in urgent need of replacement having failed its MOT ( Members Observation Test ) . |
| 17 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 18 | ‘ I let him read some of The Journal of a Fallen Angel , as a special treat . |
| 19 | ‘ The Journal of a Fallen Angel ? ’ |
| 20 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 21 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 22 | One can not reconcile the calculation until it is realised that a clad score equals 21 , and the treatment of fractions of a penny is individual . |
| 23 | WITH the divorce of the two republics of Czechoslovakia at midnight tonight , the Prince of Wales and Vaclav Havel have a formed a remarkable alliance . |
| 24 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 25 | Sexuality is not a given that has to be controlled . |
| 26 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 27 | Adding water to a drawing gives subtle washes and blends , whilst intense colour is achieved by drawing into wet paper or lifting off the pencil tip with a wet brush ; flicking the wet brush across the pencil tip gives a spattered , textural effect . |
| 28 | go , that 's A squared . |
| 29 | Aldridge went clear from a lobbed pass by Neil McNab and rounded keeper Ludek Miklosko for his first in the 17th minute . |
| 30 | naming the source of a heard miaow |