Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's called the Mod , of course , and this year the itinerant festival has come to rest in none other than Airdrie . |
| 2 | Christian Lacroix , who gained notoriety as one of Paris 's most flamboyant dress designers in the 1980s , has had to tone down his gaudy garments to get them into department stores . |
| 3 | PRINCESS Diana has promised to keep up her good work for charities , including Relate , the marriage-guidance organisation . |
| 4 | It is using its applications engineering resources by offering " a total engine package " to those of its customers whom recession has forced to run down their own development activities . |
| 5 | Grima says that he is simply grateful that he has started to work off his eight-match suspension . |
| 6 | Over in the Specialix camp , founder and vice president of research , John Pettitt , has left to start up his own business — but not , Specialix claims , as a competitor . |
| 7 | When his wife had died , in childbirth , he 'd had to give up his married-quarter . |
| 8 | We may not yet be a vigilante state but there is no doubt that more people feel compelled to mete out their own justice rather than entrust it to the police and courts . |
| 9 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 10 | In particular they felt that they might have tried to cover up their worst failings and made a public show of only their more successful work . |
| 11 | Smart may well have begun thinking out his remarkable composition while he was in St Luke 's . |
| 12 | Though assuring them that Kazakhstan , Byelarus and Ukraine had undertaken to give up their nuclear weapons , he also warned of the danger of social unrest in the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The Chilean daily La Epoca of Nov. 7 reported that the Soviet Union had decided to close down its Antarctic research programme because of a " critical lack of resources " , and the break-up of the Union . |
| 14 | By 1783 they had decided to wind up their old linen business . |
| 15 | Well I 'd better , 'cos today — ’ in between massive mouthfuls of toast — ‘ I 've got to make up my tiny mind what I 'm going to do . |
| 16 | My brother-in-law , later S'Major Neville Smith had had to give up his little garage and prepare for REME service overseas . |
| 17 | He had had to give up his own little hidey-hole in the stockroom to clear a space for them to hang their coats . |
| 18 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 19 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 20 | This increase is particularly impressive since the decline in marriage rates in the 1970s would have been expected to reduce household formation among young people , since historically young married couples have tended to set up their own households , and young single people to remain with their parents . |
| 21 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 22 | The Americans have learned to bring in their big guns whenever they need them . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that the Common Market has now been in existence for thirty-five years , despite also the fact that its main original raison d'être was to abolish obstacles to trade between Member States , a feature of the whole process has been the skill with which countries have managed to keep up their non-tariff trade barriers . |