Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony .
2 If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable .
3 Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me .
4 In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find .
5 They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end .
6 Therefore , once the parties have committed themselves to an offer and acceptance , it is too late to introduce new terms .
7 But once they have committed themselves to an investment or two , the potential of a larger portfolio appeals , and they plunge beyond the point of easy return .
8 He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties .
9 I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different .
10 A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school .
11 She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul .
12 And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette .
13 He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached .
14 But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’
15 He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two .
16 We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified .
17 I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’
18 She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in
19 ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’
20 He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide .
21 He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others .
22 The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’
23 They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education .
24 I 'd have done it with an aeroplane but
25 We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand .
26 I have nt seen it for a while and it was one of the more pleasing aspects to the Oldham game .
27 where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it !
28 We also have nt conceded anything from a corner or cross ( except that goal vs norwich … but you could nt expect him to get that one ! ) .
29 One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time .
30 However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores .
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