Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 2 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 3 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 4 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 5 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 6 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 7 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 8 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 9 | It was difficult to tell , of course , whether she had always possessed an unattractive , aggressive , sullen personality , or whether rejection by her uncle in favour of Angela Morgan had tipped her over into this behaviour . |
| 10 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 11 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 12 | Cambridge have picked themselves up in recent weeks . |
| 13 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 14 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 15 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 16 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 19 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 20 | Charge , you 've turned it on for ten hours , how much will I charge you ? |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't put it past the old devil to have done it out of sheer bravado . ’ |
| 22 | I have written it out at this length for you , the teacher . |
| 23 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 24 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 25 | Rovers chief executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ We are absolutely delighted to have made it in after six years of trying . |
| 26 | That means the jets have priced themselves out of many markets the world over . |
| 27 | More than 36,000 Chinese people have turned themselves in for economic crimes during a 10-week grace period that ended last week . |
| 28 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 29 | It was as if he had opened her up in some way . |
| 30 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |