Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 2 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 3 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 4 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 5 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 6 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 7 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 8 | BRIAN MARWOOD , England winger turned Premier League reject , last night heaped gratitude on the man who has booted him out of Sheffield United . |
| 9 | THE wife of golf star Fred Couples claims he has frozen her out of their marriage — and she intends to make him pay for it . |
| 10 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 11 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |
| 12 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 13 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 14 | The signing , in the ZOO framework , of the World Monetary and Banking Assimilation Treaty ( WOMBAT ) has written them out of history . |
| 15 | A PAKISTANI widow is claiming a relative has cheated her out of £36,000 in cash and £20,000 worth of jewellery after her husband 's death . |
| 16 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 17 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 18 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 19 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 20 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 21 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 22 | ‘ Normally clients wo n't get the feeling they have had value for money unless they have had a disaster and the lawyer has got them out of it , ’ said , one of the senior partners in Biggart Baillie Gifford 's company and commercial department . |
| 23 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 24 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 25 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 26 | AIDS has ousted him out of history . |
| 27 | These are ‘ signatures ’ and , if , in early books , the printer has set them out in sequence right at the end , perhaps with the colophon , he has supplied the ‘ register of the signatures ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 30 | I bet some silly bugger has set it off by accident . |