Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 2 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 3 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 4 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 5 | The light deepened till she looked like a ballerina in a green glass bottle . |
| 6 | But since the initial motion was put forward by the policy and resources committee the question of local government review has become more prominent within the minds of this council and other councils across the country , and I think that issue needs to be addressed before we make as a cou , a council our final decision on the County Farms estate . |
| 7 | A VET from Stockton , firemen and an RSPCA inspector were honoured yesterday for rescuing a pony trapped after it slipped down a drain . |
| 8 | FIREFIGHTERS , a vet and an RSPCA inspector were yesterday officially recognised for rescuing a pony trapped after it slipped down a drain . |
| 9 | The story of victims number 37,38 and 39 was : ‘ In an apparent ambush , a gang member , fourteen , is killed and two others are wounded as they stand at a bus stop . ’ |
| 10 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 11 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 12 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 13 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 14 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 15 | Fuchs wanted to solve his finance problems by selling off two Picassos in order to set up an endowment fund : the attempt was foiled although it resulted in a healthy debate about de-accessioning in Dutch museums . |
| 16 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | Any such claim would therefore have to be framed in terms of the interest theory ; yet , as even the advocates of such an approach admit ( Campbell , 1985 , p. 20 ) this involves open-ended and controversial issues as to which interests deserve protection , and some have argued that it leads to a disintegration of any distinctive or effective notion of a right ( Simmonds , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | One can never be defeated if one stands on a matter of morality . ’ |
| 19 | We may use physical methods of measuring light intensity that are apparently independent of our subjective experience — for instance photosensitive cells — but these are accepted because they correlate to a greater or lesser degree , under normal circumstances , with subjective experiences of brightness . |
| 20 | Cos we moved to ninety five , was n't built when we moved into a hundred and eleven |
| 21 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 22 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 23 | Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . |
| 24 | Teachers at Stowe School began an investigation after a sixteen year old boy was injured when he fell from a bunk bed . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , I nearly forgot — ’ his lips twisted when he came to a standstill ‘ — you 're newly betrothed … ’ |
| 26 | Finally his life was saved when he landed on a narrow ledge 25ft from the bottom of the pit . |
| 27 | The male People drew it tight , as fishermen must have done when they hauled in a catch in olden times . |
| 28 | Over its roof he could see the forecourt patterned with parking lots , the police cars tidily aligned and what looked like a mortuary van . |
| 29 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 30 | It was thought that anyone subscribing to a newspaper would have to pay a special tax . |