Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be paranoia , of course , to suggest that someone had arranged for him to drop into this particular hole , but it was certainly true that no one would be eager to fish him out . |
| 2 | Affordably priced , the Casual Dining collection is designed for you to use for any meal , every day . |
| 3 | Precious metals and stones and objects fabricated from them serve as conspicuous trophies of successful emulation , as gauges of affection and assurances of personal worth and well-being . |
| 4 | The shoulder-mount design is typical of standard and super VHS machines which have thereby come to he associated with semi-pro use . |
| 5 | Almost immediately he was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of the small attendants . |
| 6 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 7 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 8 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |
| 9 | The only direct counts of migration fed into them relate to military personnel and to the residents of some institutions ( mainly prisons ) . |
| 10 | while we do not exclude audit clients from the scope of the search it is crucial that not professional contact is made with anybody working for potential target companies in KPMG . |
| 11 | It does not need to be a trade usage , and may be upheld on what amount to commonsense or market practice grounds . |
| 12 | An account written by someone participating in some event or controversy may give a far more partial view than the carefully researched , balanced interpretation of a later historian who has sifted and weighed up all available evidence . |
| 13 | My Lord Mr was a conveyancing , the defendants firm are a a firm which specialise in commercial conveyancing matters and Mr was an experienced solicitor within that field and therefore the report addresses the duties to be owed by somebody working in that field and advising clients as to what the extent of the duty is . |
| 14 | A few low , slow circuits are all that are needed for you to feel in total control of high-drag situations . |
| 15 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 16 | Our last four away games ( Ipswich , Wed. , Tottenham , Everton ) were drawn with us leading in each of the last three , we need a win to put us back on track ! |
| 17 | In the run-up to the General Election the University Library mounted an exhibition of election posters from bygone eras , including those shown above which date from 1929 , 1906 and 1924 respectively . |
| 18 | Léonie , used to him clad in blue jacket and brown corduroy trousers , did n't feel able to kiss him good morning . |
| 19 | Most sought-after were pieces with the so-called Canal House decoration , painted with what looked like Dutch canal houses . |
| 20 | Erm and that that really needs to be carefully assessed as one moves towards some conclusions on where that new settlement ought to be . |
| 21 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 22 | They walk into the corner of the TV set and you think they 've broken their skull , but they just bounce off ; next moment they sit down very gently on their bottoms which are padded with what looks like fifteen nappies and they burst into tears . |
| 23 | Now the peasants are bent over what looks like bare earth |
| 24 | But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South . |
| 25 | All the churches have a strong regard for the preservation of tradition and they are still little affected by what happens in other churches . |
| 26 | The single word murmured over her mouth , then his lips were on hers , and all the fury he 'd aroused in her turned to fiery passion . |
| 27 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 28 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 29 | TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 30 | When it came time to actually record the chosen composite solo , each note was checked over what seemed like millions of times . |