Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 2 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
| 3 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 4 | He fastened the beads round his neck , arranging the knife so that it rested hidden between his shoulder blades . |
| 5 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 6 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 7 | because erm they have n't heard about their extension |
| 8 | They had heard about her erotic exploits but their jaws dropped during the dress rehearsal of one of her entrances . |
| 9 | When the locum who had visited Allison at home heard about her multiple miscarriages , she suggested Allison should ask to be referred to the Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic at Pembury Hospital in Kent . |
| 10 | Had he heard about her romance with Ian White , the junior registrar ? |
| 11 | I could see that my character had not improved since I had heard about my expectations . |
| 12 | Herbert was abroad , on business for Clarrikers , and there would have been nobody to look after me , if Joe had not heard about my illness and come to London to nurse me . |
| 13 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 14 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 15 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 16 | Before long many people from far and wide had heard about his successes , and doctors and specialists began to send him some of their patients . |
| 17 | The Everton and Wales star , caught doing 80 in a 50mph area , escaped a ban after magistrates heard about his extensive charity work . |
| 18 | Both The Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton suggest that some people who had read Rolle 's work or who had heard about his experiences were almost breaking all bounds in order to encounter something similar themselves and were , consequently , damaging themselves as well as wasting their time . |
| 19 | ( He must have heard about your legs ! ) |
| 20 | ‘ Well then , I 've heard about your relationship with Fanny Robin , and I think you ought to marry her . ’ |
| 21 | I 've just heard about your husband … . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What was she , some lonely widow who 'd heard about your hip ? ’ |
| 23 | Now I 've heard about your past , I ca n't even blame you . ’ |
| 24 | I have heard about your ships . |
| 25 | the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation . |
| 26 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 27 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 28 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 29 | The scientific management approach was criticized for its naive preoccupation with financial or extrinsic rewards , and for ignoring intrinsic needs for affiliation , self-esteem and self-actualization . |
| 30 | Content analysis is often criticized for its ‘ merely quantitative ’ findings , but its data , while often needing further interpretation , are essential to any developed sociology of culture , not only in modern communications systems , where the large numbers of works make it inevitable , but also in more traditional kinds of work . |