Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 2 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 3 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 4 | The book that Melissa had bought earlier lay on the passenger seat ; as she went to remove it , it slipped from its wrappings . |
| 5 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 6 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 7 | Like the city gentleman 's umbrella , trolley ropes were kept neatly furled round the trolley pole , only to be undone in cases of dire emergency . |