Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know about you , but that comment , which was surely not a carefully considered one , rings truer than any homily on the state of matrimony I 've heard on Oprah or seen embroidered on a sampler . |
| 2 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want to become a prisoner of my own fame or become pushed into a corner by success and just sit at home . ’ |
| 4 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 6 | This is it you see , I mean a , a company like or have gone to a lot of trouble to get that length right , er and to tune the box and all this that and the other and get the right , I do n't know maybe er just think oh you know you just build this , put this massive speaker in and call it a sub based woofer |
| 7 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 8 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 9 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 10 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 11 | It is itself a social product that has arisen as a result of political and ideological processes and institutions and its particular form has to be explained in terms of such processes . |
| 12 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 13 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 14 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 15 | In fact , independently of current concern about the constitution , there has been a trend to " judicial activism " that has resulted in a situation in which the courts have shown a much greater willingness to become involved in challenging the use of ministerial discretion and prerogative powers . |
| 16 | Do you ever have to copy type into the computer text and other data that has arrived in a fax ? |
| 17 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 18 | ‘ God ’ is not the name for everything that exists considered as a unity . |
| 19 | Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller 's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances . |
| 20 | THE American house is a domestic fortress , protected by garage doors that snap shut like a clamshell when the occupants come home each evening . |
| 21 | Although having worked as a contract systems analyst for ICI , Matthew believes that a small company can operate much more efficiently than a large one . |
| 22 | And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P . |
| 23 | People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years . |
| 24 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |
| 25 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's the trouble with Nicky , ’ Constance told Louise after she had returned from yet another evening that had ended with a quarrel . |
| 27 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 28 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 29 | To Karen , that had sounded like a lot of Jessica 's most harsh and brittle statements , the harshness and the brittleness barely concealing something darker underneath . |
| 30 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |