Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom . |
| 2 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 3 | So far we have considered primacy either as a manifestation of corporate tradition , or as a factor in Anselm 's relations with the pope , the archbishop of York , and other interested parties who might for one reason or another support or oppose Anselm 's claims . |
| 4 | The questions to be resolved centre crucially on the relationship between political history , communist ideology and literary form . |
| 5 | The fighters had conjured strength together in a dance on the eve of the attack , for striking in the darkness on the water filled many of them with foreboding . |
| 6 | The contemplation of God 's works could be a constructive diversion from the unhappy doctrinal disputes that had torn Christianity apart since the Reformation . |
| 7 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 8 | To see how this is done look again at the description of reverse punch . |
| 9 | The mother of an incontinent daughter , who had been lent money out of the DSS Social Fund to buy a washing machine , had the machine removed by a bailiff . |
| 10 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 11 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 12 | When feminism becomes respectable — and if the world has n't been turned upside down as a consequence — the significance of our achievements needs to be examined carefully . |
| 13 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 14 | Detectives say they have no idea what was stolen because the million-pound villa in a suburb of Rome was turned upside down in the Boxing Day burglary . |
| 15 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 16 | For Emeruwa , life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984 . |
| 17 | The whole package , doctrinal decrees and disciplinary reforms , has shaped Catholicism down to the present . |
| 18 | The very title , Learning through Drama , pointed many teachers who had seen drama merely as a diversion offered in the name of self-awareness in a more positive direction . |
| 19 | This is my 19th series of Wish You Were Here … ? and I 've seen television all over the world , yet I still think ours is the best . |
| 20 | They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not . |
| 21 | The terms of the contract are not usually negotiable and offers are made subject only to an accountant 's report . |
| 22 | Two-thirds , however , claim also to have made much use of information routinely available and to have collected information especially for the purpose of the review . |
| 23 | Fang and Li had spent over a year sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing , having sought refuge there in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 36722 ] . |
| 24 | We 've got funding already from the housing corporation to do twenty four category one sheltered flats on this part of the site and we 'll looking to start that in late er Novem November nineteen ninety two , this year . |
| 25 | Lord Crowther-Hunt , who has had experience both as a policy adviser and a minister , records in his book , The Civil Servants , that the permanent staff tended to isolate advisers by excluding them from official committees and by reducing the information available to them . |
| 26 | Not only have I used whisky instead of the brandy usually specified in pork and liver pâté recipes , which is a question of only about two , but two important , tablespoons to 1½ lb. of the mixture , but I have resorted also to rum ( white rum is especially useful in the kitchen ) and to gin for the same purpose , and the results have been excellent . |
| 27 | Oh God she 's drawn blood right through the trousers . |
| 28 | And and the feedba I mean I 've had feedback particularly from the parents of of all three , and in every case , er they have said , this was the making of this guy . |
| 29 | SCOTLAND 'S vehicle industry received a much needed boost yesterday with the opening of Volvo 's new bus assembly hall at Irvine alongside the existing truck-making facilities . |
| 30 | He 's got Molloy there on the ground . |