Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 2 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 3 | I would n't say it was exactly narrow-minded , but you 've got a position , you 're given a position to hold and you get it rammed down you that ‘ I am now an applied scientist ’ . |
| 4 | And when they 're all filled in we shall in here . |
| 5 | find stat view very difficult to use myself but er when the time comes , once you 've got a few that are filled in we can erm well I 'll show you how to do an S P S S data file and , and erm so you can bash your data in and if you bring it back we can turn it into a system file and analyze it . |
| 6 | Perhaps Mr can confirm whether he was present when the county planning committee considered on I think three or four occasions , the er the various range of projections . |
| 7 | I said well it 's up to the teachers , I said , you ca n't expect me , I mean if there was if he was picked on I would go down there but I mean if he 's being naughty then it 's up to the teachers to sort him out |
| 8 | Oh , he said , if we had carried on it would have been dear for somebody . |
| 9 | I come to Central Region quite regularly as a cycling tourist , and the train service from Edinburgh to Stirling and Dunblane is very useful because cycles can be carried on it , free of charge . |
| 10 | Our boys do look good , even when Whelan and Bowman have come on they look good ( Whelan especially ) . |
| 11 | No , he 's gone to a play at the college and a yeah I was er like when I realised that had come on I thought does he know ? |
| 12 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 13 | When they had all come in he closed it again . |
| 14 | in the heat , once it 's cooled down you 'll get the familiar appearance of a glossy surface of pottery , with the oxide having also fired and sometimes changed colour and that 's your colour underneath , on your base a layer of colour and then a plastic surface right if I talk about glaze , erm vitrify does , did anybody understand that ? |
| 15 | ‘ After I 'd cooled down I knew I was being irrational . ’ |
| 16 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
| 17 | And then about erm from about an hour , about half an hour later after we 'd sat down we 're just laughing our heads off because the gi , they 'd gone down the pub and we said no , we 'll have a quiet night in . |
| 18 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 19 | Now that my divorce has come through we thought it was time to tell people that we were getting married and start seeing each other openly . |
| 20 | everything is frozen over they do n't get any water do they ? |
| 21 | As soon as Louise had rung off she removed the cushion and opened the chest . |
| 22 | Well she 's just vaguely dropped off I 'll have to see how long it lasts . |
| 23 | printer so that when he 's hived off he 's got some |
| 24 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't realise it was Lori you were protecting , which only goes to show how mixed up you 'd got me , until the note arrived telling me you had the jade . |
| 26 | Well it , I ca n't , I 'm always getting mixed up you know , whether it 's the twenty ninth or the thirty |
| 27 | I 've hoovered up you ca n't bring them in here ! |
| 28 | ‘ Not primarily , but now it 's come up we might as well talk about it . |
| 29 | If picked up it hangs limply in your hands like a lifeless ragdoll and never tries to struggle . |
| 30 | Apart from the obvious aviation interest , reading this book is like watching a travelog on the USA , and once picked up it proves to be difficult to put back down ! |