Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 2 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 3 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 4 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 5 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 7 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 8 | Never one to avoid controversy , millionaire screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has come up with a scenario even more controversial than the lesbian ice-pick outrage of Basic Instinct . |
| 9 | Nina was curled up under a bed upstairs . |
| 10 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 11 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 12 | Once they have been picked out from an account as recognized as distinct by the participating informants , other material can be sorted into categories with respect to them . |
| 13 | This is clearly er erm a situation where erm we must not knowingly take business which we have not enjoyed before at a price below |
| 14 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 15 | At the beginning of 1990 , for example , there was a much publicised case of heart surgery carried out on an infant still in the womb . |
| 16 | The upgrading of the courts and the club house will be carried out under a scheme jointly funded by the District Council , the Tennis club and the Village Association . |
| 17 | The upgrading of the courts and the club house will be carried out under a scheme jointly funded by the District Council , the Tennis club and the Village Association . |
| 18 | Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) . |
| 19 | You know , you could be sat here like an idiot today |
| 20 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 21 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 22 | The brothers ' crimes against Joseph were met eventually with a forgiveness as large as Esau 's , and this time the forgiveness was received , and given the response it deserved . |
| 23 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 24 | Clare 's divorce petition would not be heard until July ; she had been warned by her solicitor not to be seen alone with a man right now , or it might affect her petition and the custody of her son . |
| 25 | In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit . |
| 26 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 27 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 28 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 29 | Korpi and Shalev ( 1979 ) insist that the development and pattern of collective bargaining in this country must be seen largely as a consequence rather than as the cause of changes in trade union density . |
| 30 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |