Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law .
2 But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river .
3 The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club .
4 That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office .
5 No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid .
6 He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours .
7 Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : —
8 But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection .
9 ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call .
10 Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage .
11 These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat .
12 Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever .
13 The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii .
14 It is also probable that the many forest tribes who were familiar with orang-utans simply regarded them as a different-looking lot of wild people .
15 The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors .
16 I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way .
17 The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit .
18 The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange .
19 What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires .
20 He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex .
21 ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’
22 ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out .
23 It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me .
24 But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story .
25 The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money .
26 He could have dropped me off the first time !
27 ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox .
28 ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’
29 Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon .
30 The devil had booked them into the same room .
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