Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to fit quite well with the detailed process of manoeuvring which characterized the early period of financial centralization . |
| 2 | that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one ! |
| 3 | Add to this the impending introduction of the reforms to community care and the prospect of a tight year of NHS spending in 1993–4 and you could forgive Virginia Bottomley for wishing she had a different portfolio . |
| 4 | The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 5 | In Bejing he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and other senior officials . |
| 6 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 7 | In the attainment targets for reading we included the following for levels 8 , 9 and 10 : ‘ Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the twentieth century and works from different cultures . ’ |
| 8 | Without revealing what caused the original problem , they confiscated anything remotely kinky they could lay their hands on ( old Fifties fetish comics , a collection of fetish art by German artist Tom , Skin 2 videos and catalogues , piercing magazines ) . |
| 9 | And in the moment that she laid herself open to dying she heard the whispery voices of the wild beasts in the wilderness : |
| 10 | On graduating he joined the Geological Survey in 1875 , working in the Teesdale and Cheviot districts until 1884 , when he was posted to the Survey 's Edinburgh office . |
| 11 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 12 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |