Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 2 | Most outstanding of all was Jenny Quayle , as Viola , who searches for her long lost twin brother in Illyria . |
| 3 | The door opened and Robyn fixed her smile , prepared to launch into her quickly rehearsed explanation . |
| 4 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 5 | Locke 's political philosophy is mainly contained in his anonymously published Treatises of Government ( 1690 ) . |
| 6 | The chick in the burrow below will now be guzzling the partly pre-digested fish food regurgitated by its newly ringed parent . |
| 7 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 8 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 9 | " I 'm looking for something better paid , " the driver said . |
| 10 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 11 | The room was full of mementoes of her childhood — Arthur Ransome books and with the model rubber horses she had collected with their individually dressed riders , her collections of postcards and a whole rack of old Elvis Presley records . |
| 12 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 13 | What did Gunson do with his new found prize ? |
| 14 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 15 | James moved swiftly into the disorder being wreaked in his carefully arranged plates , set in order of service . |
| 16 | Rachel was almost shaking herself , studying his face , listening to his softly spoken words , and her heart was pounding fiercely ; she felt fear and excitement flooding her and she knew she could not match him — not tonight , not with the strain she was under . |
| 17 | Julia sat , listening to his carefully controlled breathing , feeling his arm tense against her . |
| 18 | The same adjectives which had applied to everything else applied to the flat . |
| 19 | You came to us highly recommended anyway . |
| 20 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 21 | But he is intent now on presenting Instead , he preferred to dwell on his newly manufactured a softer image and even turned up for his press conference in an , admittedly immaculate , white tracksuit instead of his normal £2,000 Saville Row variety . |
| 22 | Looking at me totally confused , that 's the best way to start . |
| 23 | No inquiries have been made into the 240 Ulster soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country instead we see them being framed by our so called police force and left to spend their lives in a prison cell for crimes they did n't commit . |
| 24 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 25 | Jo Gross assesses the career of one of the finest post-war portraitists , a man whose love of humanity shone through his classically constructed shots |
| 26 | I never dreamed how much , when I first started to play with my newly written EVOLUTION program . |
| 27 | Trouble conveyed in one exactly placed slippage sentence . |
| 28 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 29 | The term set is used in its generally accepted modern sense , that is a collection of items which have something in common . |
| 30 | ‘ Rejoicing in their newly found freedom from school discipline and with more surplus cash than they will ever again possess ’ , one of the contributors to Whitehouse 's Problems of Boy Life ( 1912 ) believed that youths were ‘ tempted to spend as little time at home as possible … the street , rather than the sleeping place , is the home of the average youth ’ . |