Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 2 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 3 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 4 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 5 | The books were eagerly borrowed , well used and finally fell to pieces , as was the case with J. F. Campbell 's " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " , in the Port Ellen library . |
| 6 | He rejected the crutches he was offered and gently remonstrated with HB chief Stappert who helped him , wounded- cowboy style , up the steps to the rostrum . |
| 7 | When maturation is complete , the bottles are chilled , opened under pressure into a tank , filtered and then rebottled after dosage , all under pressure . |
| 8 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
| 9 | The grim 132-page report names British nationals arrested but never prosecuted for child sex crimes in the Phillippines . |
| 10 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 11 | I do n't know if he was sexually assaulted and maybe died of shock . |
| 12 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
| 13 | Some of the responses to this , although informally phrased because never intended for publication , are worth quoting . |
| 14 | perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of |
| 15 | Wills , who holds a victory over former world champion Greg Page and was no doubt encouraged by the fact that Derek Williams , whom he had floored and convincingly outpointed in New York this summer , became the new European champion after 55 seconds ' work against Hughroy Currie on Tuesday night , went about his work with pride , determination , and remarkable endurance . |
| 16 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |