Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 2 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 3 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 4 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 5 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 6 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 7 | To the fat chintz chairs and divan , the second divan which changed into a bed , the clocks and ornaments , old dolls , and skeins of photographs , fresh flowers and coloured-glass paperweights , was added now the parked pram and the pen , the fluffy toys scattered , a great teddy-bear , the baby . |
| 8 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 9 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 10 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 11 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 12 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 13 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 14 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 15 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 16 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 17 | Exactly one week later , on 5 April 1988 , the Colemans arrived back in Nicosia , moving into an apartment just vacated by Ibrahim El-Jorr , the Lebanese-American DEA informant whom Coleman had met briefly the previous year and who was now to be his co-worker in Operation Dome , reassessing the Lebanese narcotics trade at the start of a new opium-growing season . |
| 18 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 19 | Anyway , apparently , he was told exactly the same thing as I was told |
| 20 | They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 22 | Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " . |
| 23 | However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’ |
| 24 | She 's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something . |
| 25 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 26 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 27 | On the former 's side , there was a clear , oft-stated belief that the union movement represented the best chance of overthrowing the government , given both the electoral weakness and the apparent shift from ‘ left wing principles ’ of the Labour party ( see Crick 1985 , p. 140 ) . |
| 28 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 29 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 30 | The leisurely bath has reached just the right temperature and the birthday bath salts are bubbling away beautifully . |