Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 2 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 3 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |
| 4 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 5 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 6 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 7 | Started by the present Baron 's father , who purchased most of the finest Old Master pictures , the present Baron has brought it back into single ownership by buying inherited paintings from his siblings . |
| 8 | ‘ But he has hurt me more in other ways . |
| 9 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 10 | Mine has served me well for many years . |
| 11 | CROCKED star Gary Stevens last night blasted the Airdrie hard-man who has put him out for six weeks . |
| 12 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 13 | He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches . |
| 14 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 15 | His tone suggested he 'd caught her out in some minor misdemeanour , Loretta thought angrily — putting penny coins in a parking meter , or dodging fares on the underground . |
| 16 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 17 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 18 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 19 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
| 20 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 21 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 22 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 23 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 24 | His arguments do not seem dated , although the ideas about scientific revolutions put forward by Thomas Kuhn could have helped him along in one or two places . |
| 25 | Next week , she would have talked it through with three or four different people . |
| 26 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 27 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 28 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 29 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 30 | He must have towed it here for further investigation . |