Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so when you get peace , when God gives his gift of peace , it 's not something he has given from heaven down to you but he says , my peace , I give unto you . |
| 2 | It follows that the defendant will be entitled to the interest it has earned on deposit up to the point of acceptance . |
| 3 | Philosophy always has begun from Athens on from a recognition of the extraordinary facts of the diversity of human belief and attitude , on moral questions , on questions of social organization , on questions as to the ultimate nature of the universe , the destiny of man , and all such things , the most astonishing diversity of belief and attitude has prevailed and still does prevail amongst people . |
| 4 | He was n't sure whether to speak in the accent he 'd used in Look Back in Anger ( ‘ a splendid Blimp' — Worcester Gazette ) or the one for When We are Married ( ‘ made a meal of the part' — Croydon Advertiser ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 6 | I even have a problem getting mistaken for Margaret out of Brookside — no-one ever recognises me ! |
| 7 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 8 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 9 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 10 | The Prince 's speech was understood to have arisen in part out of a series of consultations with leading environmentalists , including Jonathon Porritt , Professor David Pearce , Richard Sandbrook — Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development — and Economist environment editor Frances Cairncross . |
| 11 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 12 | When Perdita last saw her as Victor 's bimbo in 1981 , Sharon 's hair had been dyed the colour of strawberry jam , her splendid breasts had floated like beachballs out of her skin-tight polyester dress and her six-inch spike heels must have terrorized any lurking moles as she tripped on to the Rutshire pitch at treading-in time . |
| 13 | His party of three ships had travelled from Lisbon out to Malacca with Albuquerque , thence down the Strait and past the immense island of Borneo to the confused archipelago where all spices known to man grew in wild profusion . |
| 14 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 15 | Now I 've given you er a tablet to take Mary , it 's the , it 's a one that they 've used in fact down at the Pain Clinics , these special Pain |
| 16 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 17 | In 1943 , there were several arrivals from Scandinavia including Wilhelm Flehner , born in Vienna , who had escaped from Norway over into neutral Sweden . |
| 18 | At sunset the slabbish , orange peaks had appeared like ghosts out of the clouds and then , in less time than it took to wind on a camera , swirled away again . |
| 19 | Dr Peter Kingdom was the man who had stormed past Harry out of Papaioannou 's shop in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance . |
| 20 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 21 | That would effectively require another audit to establish the position , because the Vendor would effectively be warranting that even in the light of events which have occurred prior to the Balance Sheet Data but which have come to light up to completion the Accounts still give a true and fair view of the Business 's financial position . |
| 22 | But er I mean he 's come from Birmingham up to Barnsley it 's only what a hundred mi well is it hundred about ninety odd mile ? |
| 23 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |