Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 2 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 3 | Sometimes ammonium hydroxide is added which functions as a mild alkali . |
| 4 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 5 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 6 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 7 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 8 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 9 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 10 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 11 | He had heard himself squeak in a long-outgrown pre-pubertal voice . |
| 12 | Seen everyone getting on a grey bus . |
| 13 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 14 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 15 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 16 | Despite the adoption of a global data-structure , an essentially hierarchical flow of information is imposed which allows for a weak interaction between the knowledge sources . |
| 17 | If the policy makers are willing to learn from some of the mistakes made in industry , where hasty changes were made which led to a dramatic brain drain subsequently , the unpalatable adjustments that will need to be made in London should create less harm than will otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | Your 29 years at home have probably seen you develop into a good conversationalist , able to strike up a relationship quickly ( which could help in selling or market research interviewing ) , or a natural organiser ( valuable in a hospital appointments department , booking car hire or reserving hotel rooms ) . |
| 19 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 20 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 21 | Have you have you ever seen anybody acting in a suspicious manner ? |
| 22 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 23 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 24 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 25 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 26 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 27 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 28 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 29 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 30 | he wo n't fly singles over water , at night , or over dubious terrain , though I have seen him fly over the odd potato field ! |