Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 3 | ‘ This case has certainly not been forgotten and we still want to hear from anyone with information . |
| 4 | It was quite still for the breeze had dropped and he vaguely registered that the women seemed to have gone . |
| 5 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 6 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the outstanding differences have not been resolved and we still have no date for talks . ’ |
| 8 | Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas . |
| 9 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 10 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 11 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 12 | Behind him , behind the last of the houses , the ancient terraces , which his forebears have shaped and which now shape this community , rise up steeply to the rock escarpment dominating this side of the island . |
| 13 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 14 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 15 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 16 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 17 | A lot of them letters that come out are already done and you just delete |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not going to give me his name , either , no doubt , because he told you something he should n't have done and he probably did it because you paid him for it . ’ |
| 19 | And as both his hands moved and he gently cupped her breasts in his warm hold as though each were infinitely precious , a sigh of bliss , of need left her . |
| 20 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 21 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 22 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 23 | Nothing could be said and they just sat in silence enjoying each other 's company . |
| 24 | Erm , to congratulate you firstly on the level of settlements that have been achieved in the extracting and building conc building products division erm secondly , on , on one six seven the refused to make an offer and , er , if you could perhaps update us as to what , er method we 're gon na approach employers now , erm , to , to secure settlements in that industry er , we think it was deplorable that no offer was made and we also think it was deplorable that E C C Building Products decided to say that even if an offer had been made , they would n't have been prepared to implement it . |
| 25 | It is possible that this difference of opinion was pre-arranged and intended simply to minimize the extent of the cooperation between Richard and Philip as a preliminary to the new proposal which the King of France now made and which clearly had been worked out between them . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ruling has been made and I just do n't know what more I can do . |
| 27 | I I have feelings about it , I I I mean , my , generally my experience I do n't know I have n't discussed with other members but er , when I the panel that I er , allocated to erm and I was telephoned , could a make , and certain dates were made and I finally made one then I was told , oh no that 's not convenient ! |
| 28 | You see , we 've got that board made and you just have n't played with your Lego much since have you ? |
| 29 | At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children . |
| 30 | There may be occasions when a payment you are expecting is delayed and you suddenly need funds to cover the resultant cash shortage . |