Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divine purpose of life is almost entirely forgotten and he spends each lifetime self-centredly chasing after vanishing mirages . |
| 2 | Yes he 's saying a com condition of er general conformity that the general conformity is apparently er met by this er what 's being done and I think general conformity , I , I do n't know I 'm guessing , relates to the housing commitment of a broad strategic equivalent , is that the point ? |
| 3 | erm , we 've never seen and they say this woman big crooks yeah , and the woman she got her dogs chain and she hit her over the back , she 's got all bruises , she told us after when when her report and |
| 4 | " By combination " , Wilson affirmed , " all reforms and improvements within reason could be secured and I preached this doctrine on every possible occasion " . |
| 5 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 6 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 7 | Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’ |
| 8 | calcium hydroxide hydrogen chloride you get calcium chloride formed and you got this thing well it 's quite likely that this does form initially , but it does n't last very long and it 's not very stable and it |
| 9 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 10 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 11 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 12 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
| 13 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 14 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 15 | So in this case you get this R would be activated and we access this location here which would be summed into summation to give us our response of well two maybe in this particular case . |
| 16 | The flowers and foliage of the rose have gone and it needs thoughtful pruning and tying in to prevent it whipping about in autumn . |
| 17 | Her lungs are badly scarred , her throat is damaged , her sense of taste and smell have almost completely gone and she suffers severe mood swings . |
| 18 | Her eye kindled and she resumed normal service . |
| 19 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |
| 20 | As a result they , they grow large , they grow aggressive , and they 're highly coloured and they fight each other for access to males . |