Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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31 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
32 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
33 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
34 | And do n't believe all you think you 've heard about a Cobra being undrivable in anything but a straight line either . |
35 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
36 | I 've heard about a roleplaying game called Maniac Mansion from US Gold . |
37 | Otis had heard about a special policy being offered by The Legal Protection Group , which you can add on to your motor insurance policy . |
38 | ‘ I 've heard about a chap who 's in close touch with a fellow who can always manage it . |
39 | We have heard about a planet called Vadinamia , where our stolen phetam may have been taken . |
40 | ‘ I 've heard about a gentleman who visits you every night at the theatre , ’ he said to his sister . |
41 | I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels . |
42 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
43 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
44 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
45 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
46 | If more than one yacht visited , a barbecue was set up on the beach , and many a bleary Azorian dawn was witnessed as a result . |
47 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
48 | The service has been publicised through a public service announcement in Urdu on local television and has been swamped with requests for interpreter help from social services , solicitors and other agencies . |
49 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
50 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
51 | If a giant cuts off somebody 's head , the spectacle is only realised as a striking and funny denouement … |
52 | In other words a capital outlay and revenue allocation will , by necessity , precede the recovery of any sums realised as a result of the reduction in long stay services . |
53 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
54 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
55 | That is , written and spoken language have to be taught through an awareness of Swedish Sign Language and the perspective this creates for the learning task . |
56 | According to a House of Commons motion , the leak was traced through a system of numbered copies of the 752-page document , which was sent out to the authorities investigating possible criminal proceedings resulting from the report 's conclusions . |
57 | Anthropologists and others have produced evidence of the range of languages and institutions within which ‘ scientific progress ’ has been made , as in the mix of mathematics and astrology in ancient Greece ( Goody , 1977 , p. 17 ) , and of geometry and the building of sacred altars in ancient India ( Parry , 1982 , p. 23 ) , while in Europe developments can be traced through a number of traditions , of which the essayist tradition is only one . |
58 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |
59 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes indicates the indispensability of popping champagne corks for the success of a ball , stating that no less than 1,800 bottles of mousseux were consumed during a party held on 30 August 1739 at which Louis XV apparently attended incognito . |
60 | Well , in the definition that we heard , it tends to be associated with , with trying to rid your body of the food that you 've consumed during a binge . |