Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 2 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 3 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 4 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 6 | He 's seen me talking to the great Walter Schellenberg . |
| 7 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 8 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 9 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 10 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 11 | he wo n't fly singles over water , at night , or over dubious terrain , though I have seen him fly over the odd potato field ! |
| 12 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 13 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 14 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 15 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 16 | Then he had watched them walk to the main room with their arms around each other and kiss in the warm light before closing the door behind them . |
| 17 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 18 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 19 | Once the birds were enclosed she leaned against the low coconut tree behind the house and examined her arms in the gentle afternoon light , wondering what colour they were . |
| 20 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 21 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 23 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 24 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 25 | When that 's settled you know through the various committees , well various . |
| 26 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 27 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 28 | Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures . |
| 29 | On summer days she would practise her arabesques on the sandstone balustrades of the house and when the visitors had gone she danced in the black-and-white marble entrance hall , known officially as Wootton Hall , beneath portraits of her distinguished ancestors . |
| 30 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |