Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What Rick has failed to realise is that the Yamaha Pacifica ( 7,9 & 12 series ) also features a compound radius fingerboard , and has done since the range was introduced in 1990 .
2 He made his choice and watched fascinated as the arm jerked across and laid the record on the turntable .
3 After a few feeble and dispirited attempts to rotate his shoulders in a circular movement , or raise and lower his arms , he subsided with a groan and lay slumped until the nurse helped him up again and the torture continued .
4 Tools are even provided for making legitimate entry … as long as there is no criminal damage to the property itself , and as long as no-one lives or intends to live there , the squatters can change the locks and stay put until a court order forces their eviction .
5 The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life .
6 If its distribution won them friends , a loss of employment was readily blamed on the same men who assumed credit for the award of patronage , and frequently credit was assumed but blame apportioned when the politician 's responsibility was unclear .
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