Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 2 | So what happens with any acid and any metal with a mes a metal and an acid you 're going to get a salt and hydrogen given off . |
| 3 | The background tells more than the people or the happenings : the water-sprinkler on the lawn ; the hateful birds with their ‘ strident and spiteful noises ’ and ‘ those banal exchanges from tree to tree , mockings and bickerings and sudden solo trillings ’ ; the cook with a napkin fastened round her head as if it were a Stilton cheese … . |
| 4 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 5 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 6 | Suddenly all the fight drained out of her , leaving her weary and spent . |
| 7 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
| 8 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 9 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 10 | You looked a bit shaken up . ’ |
| 11 | But I 've had the story checked out , Sally . |
| 12 | A fox earth can be located from a considerable distance downwind by the pungent smell given off . |
| 13 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 14 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 15 | Tensions ahead of the referendum boiled over on Aug. 17 . |
| 16 | If you ever get the chance , take a fitness test and have your fat level checked out . |
| 17 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 18 | They always fit perfectly , look painted on , and some have caused quite a furore in the past . |
| 19 | 7.6.2 Subject to the provisions of clauses 7.6.3 and 7.6.4 the Landlord shall as soon as the Permissions have been obtained or immediately where no Permissions are required apply all money received in respect of such insurance ( except sums in respect of loss of Rent ) in rebuilding or reinstating the Premises or the Retained Parts so destroyed or damaged [ making up any difference between the cost of rebuilding and reinstating and the money received out of the Landlord 's own money ] It is important to include the words in square brackets in order to ensure that the damaged or destroyed premises are reinstated . |
| 20 | In rebuilding or reinstating those parts of the Centre including essential accesses and services so destroyed or damaged making up any difference between the cost of rebuilding and reinstating and the insurance money received out of the Landlord 's own money |
| 21 | About a kilometre from our house there was a large field given over exclusively to melons and watermelons , which do well in the Po valley because of the heat . |
| 22 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 23 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 24 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 25 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 26 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 27 | He wore a silk shirt with a cravat tucked in round his thin neck , and elegantly uncrumpled linen trousers . |
| 28 | She has a clean apron round her neat waist and her hair smoothed back . |
| 29 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 30 | Elinor was stunning as the Queen of the Nile , her long black hair smoothed out with wet-look gel , a gold and green silk robe and chunky turquoise earrings and bangles from Star of the East down the market ; and how handsome was Nigel in his mini-skirt , feathers and horse brasses . |