Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last word was stressed and almost on a growl . |
| 2 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 3 | It is quite another matter to be told what taxes to pay and how much unemployment is to be suffered and then as an afterthought to be informed that there is to be no democratic redress . |
| 4 | Egon Zehnder has established a reputation for high quality and absolute discretion , charges fees based on work to be undertaken and not on a contingency or percentage of salary basis , and has retained practically all its senior staff . |
| 5 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | Parents , often isolated and often with a view of children based only upon their experience of their own offspring , began to be able to set their child and his/her behaviour within a much broader context . |
| 7 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 8 | She was also flushed and evidently in a state of unrest , which made him feel chivalrous and sympathetic . |
| 9 | Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 10 | He with his cheerfully avuncular man of the world bonhomie , always smartly dressed and often with a flower in his buttonhole , a connoisseur of fine wines and Havana cigars . |
| 11 | I have made this broad but brief review of the development of provision for special needs partly to remind us of how much improvement has been achieved and also as a background to the rest of the paper . |
| 12 | 2.3 As the nature and number of the learners have changed and partly as a consequence of that change ) , so has the nature of the teaching . |