Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has now collected about nine or ten of my pictures , all of which contain some yellow roses , and has grouped them together beautifully in a small alcove . |
| 2 | During a break while attending a board meeting , I have looked beyond the faces and the smoke , and seen some idea that has carried me far away for a few moments . |
| 3 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 4 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 5 | It seemed inconceivable that the man who had teased her so unforgivably in the morning had been so filled with compassionate understanding later in the same day . |
| 6 | and the other , the rest of it is on the end of that , but I 've wound it almost back to the beginning , that 's Fantasia at the beginning of the tape |
| 7 | We have said nothing so far about the Joseph story , and we have no space here to go into any detail . |
| 8 | He had only met them once briefly at a party , but they remembered him effusively . |
| 9 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 10 | But Mike Felton 's foot had n't kicked her , he had moved it quickly out of the way and caught her as she fell and so saving her head from coming into contact with the brass coal bucket . |
| 11 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
| 12 | And of course , I 've told you earlier on in the week , that you only get paid on |
| 13 | This has shown itself most vividly in the miserable business of Macedonia . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got something else on with the Zikr . ’ |
| 15 | Although she 'd helped herself only sparingly from the selection ranging from herring in various preparations through varieties of other seafood to choices of pâtés and cuts of prime meat accompanied by several types of bread and salads , she 'd found the meal delicious and satisfying . |
| 16 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 17 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 18 | And that was when we came , and we started hay-making along there to the man-killers we called him , of course there 's a better picture here and I 've got it here along with the man-killer we caught it up , and we 've got someone coming along behind . |
| 19 | You 've got it later on in the agenda , Arthur , can we wait for that one ? |
| 20 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 21 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 22 | I have n't watched it yet still on the |
| 23 | The speaker clearly knew a great deal more than he told us , as shown in his very good question-answering , but he should have told us much more in the actual talk . |
| 24 | While anxiously awaiting the first sighting report of the wanted man , they were watching with some satisfaction the handcuffed members of the Prophet 's entourage being bundled none too gently into the waiting paddy wagons by grim-faced uniformed cops . |
| 25 | Until the pound perked up yesterday , the Exchange rate mechanism had asserted itself yet again as an Evil Restrictive Morass after Portugal 's escudo leapt in with both feet on Monday . |
| 26 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 27 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 28 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 29 | Nor have I found them anywhere else in the box so far … |
| 30 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |