Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the girls I work with is getting married and has got married today and |
| 2 | It 's not far , under a mile , the grey house beside the churchyard , the one with those disagreeable laurels I long to have cut down but the Rector says no , they give us some privacy and I suppose , as usual , he is right . |
| 3 | he loves to get thrown up and |
| 4 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 5 | Storms and flooding at the end of August were reported to have killed more than 150 people and made thousands homeless in southern Bangladesh . |
| 6 | Igglesden , too , bowled well for 50 wickets and is reported to have wintered prosperously and without injury in South Africa . |
| 7 | The company was also reported to have paid more than 40,000 million yen to some 200 politicians , including members of the LDP and opposition parties . |
| 8 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 9 | They expect to have sold more than a million IQs worldwide by the end of 1991 . |
| 10 | Then the car leaped forward and the driver 's door that he 'd forgotten to close swung out and hit the stone pillar at the entrance to the forecourt . |
| 11 | He 'd got married just before he went to sea , and he had two voyages and he did n't earn anything . |
| 12 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 13 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 14 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 15 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 16 | A WOMAN who fell victim to a cruel conman estimated to have swindled more than £1m is warning other people not to be taken in . |
| 17 | Er , I would like to know how much of the the , the , the thing about the bridal magazines and the whole idea of , of a wedding is portrayed and the media has an influence on a a young girl wanting to get married rather than the actual you know , th th , you know how much sh she knows the person , or loves the person , maybe it 's the , the whole image of the wedding that takes over , you know , erm rather than the , the , the practicalities . |
| 18 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 19 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 20 | At first the Appeal seemed to have failed utterly and some drily observed that perhaps we too would now learn what it means when the well runs dry . |
| 21 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 22 | The promised War Risk Compensation Scheme did not appear until 19 February 1915 and their Lordships seemed to have forgotten altogether that under the Merchant Shipping Act the moment a ship became a total wreck , from whatever cause , the wages of its crew ceased to be paid , leaving both sailors and their dependents in " an unenviable position " . |
| 23 | Only a smattering of perversely conscientious newsmen and women remained outside the cordon … and their resolve seemed to have paid off when the police began to leave the building , climbing hurriedly into their cars and vans . |
| 24 | Two leaders of the Reform Circle movement , Csaba Tabajdi and Ferenc Gazso , are missing from the new line-up , while the People 's Democracy Platform , the reformists ' left-wing allies , seemed to have got more than their share of the leading places . |
| 25 | A selection is being made of these authorities which are revealed to have diverged upwards or downwards by a statistically significant amount from the others in their class and a detailed investigation made in the authorities concerned to discover the causes . |
| 26 | It might be said to have gone further than Scandinavian legislation in distinguishing the position of the wife from that of her unmarried counterpart , since it would arguably have denied her equal access to the law . |
| 27 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
| 28 | Random inspections undertaken in England and Wales last year were said to have found more than half the sample failing to comply with statutory requirements . |
| 29 | The broker was said to have acted honestly and in good faith , and that was all that was required of him . |
| 30 | Koons 's last show at that New York gallery , which showed works depicting the artist in sex acts with his wife the porn star and Italian parliamentarian Ilona Staller is said to have sold badly and run up its own multi-million-dollar deficit . |