Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [det] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , he has travelled some of football 's more pot-holed highways , including short spells at non-League Fisher Athletic and in the Middle East just as the Gulf War began . |
| 2 | Now this will surprise you , I know ; but my mother has pointed that out time after time . |
| 3 | HOLLYWOOD hulk Arnie Schwarzenegger has heard all about pap snap and tries to get one of his photos used . |
| 4 | I have written off the cost on a straight line basis in the accounts and the inspector has disallowed this for tax purposes . |
| 5 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 6 | Which venue has seen both of history 's only innings of over 1,000 runs ? ( 6 ) 2 . |
| 7 | This week the bespectacled McAllister has missed little of note on the variable greens . |
| 8 | It has done more , for example , for the understanding of music by ordinary people of this country than any other organisation , including the Arts Council ’ — this was a generous admission from the then chairman of the Arts Council — ‘ and it has done much for education and a great deal for general culture . |
| 9 | The Company has done this with resolve and dedication and produced a creditable performance , not only in preserving its ongoing business , but also in strengthening its base through acquisition . ’ |
| 10 | In those interviews , Margaret Thatcher has made much of science and technology . |
| 11 | Although simple relationships based upon mean annual values of climatic parameters are prone to oversimplification , more recently this second approach has developed along more specific process lines ( see p. 110 ) and has had much in common with energy budget climatology , particularly as pursued by the Russian school subsequent to the work of Budyko ( 1958 ) . |
| 12 | I think Amber has had some during biology but it is not enough and I will be talking to the Parent Teachers Association about it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If we are talking about who has contributed most to hairdressing , it would have to be Vidal Sassoon . |
| 14 | But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law . |
| 15 | Although Olivetti has stolen most of Pyramid 's limelight of late , the $100m OEM relationship with the Italian group is matched by a similar agreement it has over at Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 16 | Where most of the planned personal communicators support pen input , Radio Computer has eschewed this in favour of the capability to exchange messages with pagers and run MS-DOS applications . |
| 17 | But bosses at the famous casino , which has staged some of boxing 's greatest world title fights , are confident they 've scooped the big prize . |
| 18 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 19 | She 'd forgotten all about Family Day . |
| 20 | But in the end we felt we 'd seen enough of logging and gum-digging . |
| 21 | She 'd seen more of life and death at twenty-six than most people would see in their entire lifetime . |
| 22 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 23 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 24 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 25 | He 'd had enough of learning . |
| 26 | He often said he 'd had enough of living and was ‘ ready to go ’ was how he put it . |
| 27 | See I 've got this on tape . |
| 28 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 29 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |
| 30 | Back , outstanding throughout , said : ‘ We should have won this with room to spare . |