Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 2 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 3 | There must be a song about a guy named Colin somewhere in the great existence of music . |
| 4 | Yet Eve had phoned Benny twice in the last week to say that life in the Dublin convent was intolerable and she would have to meet her in Dublin because otherwise she would go mad . |
| 5 | Just after the end of our period , in the late 1150s , the celebrated intellectual and letter writer John of Salisbury recounted his travels : ‘ ten times have I crossed the chain of the Alps since I left England first ; twice have I travelled through Apulia ; I have done business often in the Roman court on behalf of my superiors and friends ; and on a variety of counts I have traversed England , and France too , many times . ’ |
| 6 | He was a member of a well-known Jewish banking family in Frankfurt , and had the unique distinction of having served in the trenches in the Kaiser 's uniform in the First World War and then , having sought shelter here from the Nazi persecutions of the 1930s , having served as a British officer in King George 's uniform in the Second . |
| 7 | ‘ I should think she 'd rather have had sixpence instead of the fond farewell . |
| 8 | Yeah , they , they 've got sponsorship down beneath the two hundred pounds . |
| 9 | But the discussions we have had point clearly to the next step , which will be to reorganise AEA Technology to better reflect our main activities and the requirements of our customers . |
| 10 | He had a magnetic quality which would have drawn attention even without the good looks , the hand-made clothes and impeccable grooming . |
| 11 | The Wolfenden Report also opened television up to the first openly gay programme , Granada 's 1957 ‘ Homosexuality and the Law , A Prologue to the Wolfenden Report ’ . |
| 12 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 13 | and then you 've got women all round the worse one 's are the women with the kiddies in the pushchair , and you 've got to go round and you . |
| 14 | Kath you 've got alarms all over the bleeding place , what are you up to ? |
| 15 | Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain . |
| 16 | Users contacted through the snowball sampling procedure were asked to provide the initials and sex of up to ten persons in their township who they knew to have used heroin regularly during the first prevalence period . |
| 17 | Until she was approaching her half century Hannah was probably the least travelled person anywhere in the northern counties . |
| 18 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 19 | One hot morning in west Beirut , the Palestinians ' Mourabitoun allies even invited journalists down to the American University campus to witness the launching of a newly acquired ground-to-ground missile towards Jounieh . |
| 20 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 21 | In this way , grossly oversimple notions about sex differences have affected philosophy far beyond the obvious context of egalitarian theory from which we started . |
| 22 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 23 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 24 | I know when , when invented scales back in the early thirties er typically they were declarative statements which people had to agree or disagree with erm but er I think perhaps more recently people have gone more for things that are a bit like how would you feel , what do you think type statements erm so er |
| 25 | Everyone knows that 1990 will be a tough year , with bookings something like 40 per cent down , the public playing a lament in J. Major , the tour operators bent on improving profit margins instead of competing by price for market share , with heavily reduced capacity particularly at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 26 | At27/129 , we hear of ‘ the earthquake in Messina ’ ( 28 December 1908 ) , but this is merely incidental to the vast blague perpetrated by Romains , Vildrac , and others in Paris — to be nostalgically remembered years later in the Pisan Canto 80 ( see Richard Sieburth in Paideuma 2 , p.280 ) . |
| 27 | Lissa had brought things out into the open , but it was too late now for regrets . |
| 28 | Now Michael has lured Alfred down to the small theatre that he runs . |
| 29 | The glorious summer weather we have recently experienced offers much to the avid detectorist . |
| 30 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |