Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 2 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 3 | There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another |
| 4 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 5 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 6 | But he had designed and built it for himself . |
| 7 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 8 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 9 | ‘ In particular , over and above their local roles , councils are located and locate themselves in what may be termed the ‘ national local government system ’ ' ( Dunleavy , 1980a , p. 105 ) . |
| 10 | complete the application form ( and in some cases , ask your husband or wife to sign the consent form included and return it to you ) |
| 11 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 12 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 13 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 14 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
| 15 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 16 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 17 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 18 | Anyway , I really was going to take the spell off straight away , but of course you have to go hopping off and get caught and land us in this mess . ’ |
| 19 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 20 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |
| 21 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 22 | This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them onto the media item . |
| 23 | The Catholics , too , organised and armed themselves in anticipation of a Protestant backlash or about-turn by the security forces . |
| 24 | The sister who 'd protested and overruled her by bringing in another doctor to relieve Brückner 's suffering . |
| 25 | She was reported as seeing it as a serious matter and thought the fine by the court was not enough : ‘ I 'd have chopped his hand off if I 'd had the chance ’ . |
| 26 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 27 | I can either speak what I have written or save it on disk . |
| 28 | There are other infringements such as making anything to enable articles to be made or doing anything in relation to a kit . |
| 29 | Most of us who are brought up in the Western Christian tradition take the divinity of Jesus for granted or regard it as a philosophical problem . |
| 30 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |