Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 2 | Behind the major properties were a number of cottages huddled together in yards or strung out along the lanes . |
| 3 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 4 | Many would prefer to risk a pregnancy than put up with the side-effects of ‘ efficient ’ contraception . |
| 5 | " For which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross . |
| 6 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |
| 7 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 8 | The report concluded that substantial financial support should be given to research promoted and co-ordinated by the Home Office and carried out in the Universities and by other agencies . |
| 9 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 10 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 11 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 12 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 13 | He found that a quiet bay gelding had been saddled for him , and mounted along with the others , the Hearthwares hissing with effort as they pulled the weight of their armour into the saddle . |
| 14 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 15 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 16 | A con man was arrested and brought in to the police station . |
| 17 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 18 | The same basic principle is used for the tearing apart of Miguel , who has been bitten and gone over to the zombies , letting them into the compound — though they still rip him to shreds . |
| 19 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 20 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 21 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 22 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 23 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 24 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 25 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 26 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 27 | The market is still , of course , seen as made up of the activities of the market participants — the consumers , producers , and factor owners . |
| 28 | Instead , according to the Tory party , and as spelt out in the guidelines to the commission , we have a structure that accords with the aims of the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 29 | Wallowa Reservation as set up by the Commissioners in 1873 |
| 30 | The awards will take the form of a cash payment to the school or college , to be used , as set out in the rules , to process the original project . |