Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I imagine those who appeal would carry on paying the bill until the outcome is resolved and then receive a rebate with interest if necessary , ’ said Mr Collin . |
| 2 | I hauled it when the weather permitted and invariably found a lobster or two in it , or even a fish of some sort . |
| 3 | We should have SOME games in the season where we are outplayed and yet get a result . |
| 4 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 5 | In practice , we first form a column of skip means alongside the values to be smoothed and then form a column of the required smoothed values . |
| 6 | He said he would wait another week to see if the injury healed and then make a decision — if he steps down , leading batsman Javed Miandad may lead the team . |
| 7 | During the year , Mortgage Asset Management Limited has been further developed and now has a portfolio totalling £74 million . |
| 8 | Between 1740 and 1760 there was introduced and popularly used a sauce-boat in the shape of a shell , sitting on a short-stemmed , moulded foot . |
| 9 | The trees and shrubs wavering in the wind had stilled and now resembled a child 's Plasticine world . |
| 10 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 11 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 12 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 13 | In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch . |
| 14 | Imaging quality has been vastly improved and now includes a 3D facility . ’ |
| 15 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 16 | Situated just a mile from Kirchberg centre , the hotel has recently been completely re-furbished and now offers a sauna , table tennis and bicycle hire free of charge . |
| 17 | Will the Foreign Secretary keep the House informed and perhaps make a statement when the House returns after the recess ? |
| 18 | At 4 a.m. it was purely by chance that Bob Newman first heard that Tweed had murdered and then raped a girl . |