Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should n't be bashed for putting it into a sale ; we help to bring it to a resolution by bringing out it into the open ’ . |
| 2 | Silverfish are an awesome experience , and purely on that basis EMF should be applauded for introducing them to a wider audience . |
| 3 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 4 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 5 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 6 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 7 | The second movement was just ending , and had succeeded in stabilising her to a certain extent . |
| 8 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 9 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 10 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 11 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 12 | Wimpol remains totally committed to supporting you in the development of your career and , through suitable training , to ensuring that you play a full part in the company 's continued growth . |
| 13 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 14 | We may want to make the point that if we are to be committed to doing something about the global warming of the ozone layer then we will need to say when we will do it by . |
| 15 | The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half . |
| 16 | Michael Landy 's ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ at Karsten Schubert ( to 30 May ) is his most important exhibition since ‘ Market ’ was installed at Building One in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 17 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 18 | This too is a useful design tool : a dazzling , disquieting pair , or duality , can be resolved by discharging them into a line . |
| 19 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
| 20 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 21 | The imposition of a curriculum from above will not mean , if assurance given by politicians is to be believed , that teachers will be prevented from delivering it in the way they think most appropriate . |
| 22 | When Geoffrey of Brittany was buried it was said that Philip had been forcibly prevented from throwing himself into the grave to join his friend . |
| 23 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 24 | And there was no way he could be prevailed upon to release it without an embarrassing fracas in front of the judge ! |
| 25 | The State Department 's reply [ KP 125 ] was : " The Department assumes that the 28,000 Cossacks in question are Soviet Nationals and , if so , no objection is seen to delivering them to the Russian forces in accordance with the terms of the Yalta agreement . |
| 26 | So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back . |
| 27 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 28 | The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells . |
| 29 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 30 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |