Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 2 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 3 | The role of the link programme is to promote an exchange of ideas and has led to visits in both directions . |
| 4 | It can be a real privilege to meet an older person who has experienced considerable loss in their life and has come to terms with it . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 6 | The semantic net has been studied and modified based on principles of analogical inheritance . |
| 7 | Pupils could use the computer to prepare for their visit and arrive provided with printouts of data-sheets or lists of questions . |
| 8 | Tiredness does kill , and having looked at statements of accidents it 's a contributing factor . |
| 9 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 10 | Every spring the sheep were washed in a special pool , to keep their wool clean and to get rid of insects on their skin . |
| 11 | The ELA itself seems quickly to have degenerated into a " free labour " organization supplying non-union men during disputes but in abeyance between whiles , and to have suffered from secessions by the liner companies which reverted to independent behaviour on labour matters . |
| 12 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 13 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 14 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 15 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 16 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 17 | Over by the fireplace , the headmaster had exhausted his limited store of small talk and had advanced to matters of serious educational concern . |
| 18 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 19 | The police anticipated trouble and had drafted in reinforcements from neighbouring forces . |
| 20 | Through various tactics such as postponing , returning reports for further clarification , and stalling based on excuses like ‘ bad timing , ’ the change efforts were effectively squashed . |
| 21 | Wishart Scientific are agents for Olympus microscopes in Northern Ireland and have expanded in personnel from two to twelve in five years . |
| 22 | Licensed dealers have made markets in some USM stocks , and have dealt through stockbrokers in the rest . |
| 23 | Thus psalm and halve would be excluded , but Sam and have counted as tokens of ( a ) . |
| 24 | A Roman catholic ethos is not only present in the constitution of 1937 but has penetrated into affairs of state , legislation , and decisions over the destinies of individuals with frequency . |
| 25 | He is fully aware of the dangers , but has put in years of preparation . |
| 26 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |