Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 2 | Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him . |
| 3 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 4 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 5 | An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home . |
| 6 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 7 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 8 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 9 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 10 | And she has agreed to a cow at last , next week , I must — ’ |
| 11 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 12 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 13 | She has worked as a freelance fabric designer in New York , specialising in the production of hand painted silks . |
| 14 | She has acted as a consultant to both the International Tennis Federation and the South American Tennis Confederation and was instrumental in helping to develop women 's tennis throughout Latin America before taking on the role of spokesperson for Tennis Interlink . |
| 15 | She has put on a bit , but |
| 16 | JEWKES ] Some melancholy hangs on her spirits ; she seems affected by a grief that rises from no common cause . |
| 17 | something she 's seen in a magazine or |
| 18 | Er , hello there , my name 's Mike , well let's go over to the weather with Winsy , no Winsy , oh Rita 's dropped dead , she 's jumped off a cliff we think , we think |
| 19 | ‘ She 's gone for a skiing lesson — she wants to learn before going home . ’ |
| 20 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 21 | No , she 's gone on a trip , Simon called round he just dropped mother off . |
| 22 | She 's gone with a friend who likes that stuff . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's gone into a state of shock . |
| 24 | She went , yeah , my Aunty Jill 's gone to the city , she 's gone to a city . |
| 25 | She 's gone from a Scouse-hold to a household name , co-starring in the latest run of the hit TV show The Comedians . |
| 26 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 27 | She 's got in a lot of . |
| 28 | she 's worked in a number of different areas |
| 29 | More important than all the pats on the back she 's had as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |