Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Cube has sorted out his Street Knowledge label , you make records that are comparable too , if not as mighty , as the boss ' own . |
| 2 | Hilda Lodge ( Kent ) has hung up her teaching cap , but will continue to wear her Executive and Publicity Committee hats for a very long time to come , we hope . |
| 3 | Reg , who has hung up his mail sack early for health reasons , began his rounds with foot and pedal power but eventually graduated to one of the familiar bright red vans . |
| 4 | Wavetracer Inc , the Acton , Massachusetts-based manufacturer of low-end massively parallel processing systems , has closed down its hardware business after investors pulled the plug and refused to invest further capital . |
| 5 | But then the second girl wails that she has laughed away her whizz powder . |
| 6 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 7 | Sunnyvale , California-based modems specialist Telebit Corp has firmed up its January agreement to acquire Octocom Systems Inc for 5m new shares : Telebit currently has about 7.5m shares outstanding so Octocom holders would have 40% of the enlarged firm on completion in May . |
| 8 | EXHAUSTED Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford has cut short his US concert tour performing the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 9 | Samsung Software America Inc has spun out its Replix fax software solution into a separate business under Dr Hikyu Lee , former president and chief executive officer of SAA . |
| 10 | McConnells is handling the Northern Ireland Tourist Board for the South , where it has stepped up its marketing drive , and another Northern Ireland based account , Texas Homecare . |
| 11 | It is n't a half term just pain , mainly now to go through the options and choose it but if you were perhaps bring in as you co , I 've got written down your careers officer |
| 12 | That includes the Open Software Foundation , which , having given up its board seat at the beginning of this year , currently has no formal relationship with X/Open , even though the standards body has endorsed its Distributed Computing Environment technology . |
| 13 | On this particular occasion , having picked up her baby daughter , the mother was in such a haste to reach the safety of the shelter that she tripped on the stone steps leading down into its dark interior . |
| 14 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 15 | Sometimes , too , Ruth had eaten in a snack bar , having saved up her pocket money for a beefburger . |
| 16 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 17 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 18 | I think it must have gone down your neck Mademoiselle , said Betty , which nearly made Mademoiselle have a fit . |
| 19 | Open to anyone over 60 , its speakers have included the often taciturn John Burridge and Steve Cram , equally unlikely to have given out his home telephone number . |
| 20 | Her husband may have died soon after 1649 , for in the early 1650s Katherine appears to have taken over his haberdashery business . |
| 21 | And you 've filled in your UCCA form making sure that you 've put yourself across properly . |
| 22 | Certainly if Twiggy had given up her day job as a Saturday girl at Vincent 's of Queensway , she might never have become the face of the sixties and the household name she is today . |
| 23 | Rita had given up her fashion career when she had the children , so she could now divert her energies to tasks such as decorating and making curtains and other soft furnishings . |
| 24 | Her father ( about whose parentage there is some mystery ) had given up his army commission and gone into business . |
| 25 | He had given up his Saturday job in the supermarket some time back , so today he would just drive and drive , drifting along the miles of highway toward Edmonton . |
| 26 | Okay meanwhile back at the carbonates so you 've sorted out your calcium chloride and you 've got this horrible looking thing H two C O three . |
| 27 | Below us in the village square Kalchu had pegged out his backstrap loom and was weaving a length of grey goat's-hair cloth to make a rug . |
| 28 | But , too shaken by what was happening to argue , she had picked up her Aran cardigan . |
| 29 | And when Amabel had discovered his close relationship to such ancient and noble families as the Larks of Moorby Hall and the Covington-Pyms , she had written out his invitation card at once . |
| 30 | From the early 1920s onwards , Hitler had built up his power base in the Party above all on the strength of the bonds of personal loyalty with his ‘ paladins ’ , the second-rank Nazi leaders and Gauleiter . |