Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel punished for all the sins you never committed ; you 're supplicated and invaded . |
| 2 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 3 | Just weeks before her death Kelly sat with her father at the computer keyboard in her bedroom and keyed in all the arrangements she had made for her funeral . |
| 4 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 5 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 6 | But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen . |
| 7 | The arms of his wheelchair were hung with all the accoutrements he needed ; a lighter , two packets of cigarettes and a little leather bandolier which held his supply of Kronenbourg bottles . |
| 8 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |
| 9 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 10 | But now McAteer said that ‘ no matter what truths might be revealed by such an investigation they could only be interpreted as weapons of war at this stage ’ . |
| 11 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 12 | The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched . |
| 13 | In the context of an infill project the competing contractors will be supplied with all the information they need to tender for the job but on a fixed price basis , including the total management of the contract and |
| 14 | However , thanks to the efforts of Fred , Bob and a host of well-wishers , they have since been equipped with all the basics they need to start rebuilding the civilised kind of lifestyle they are obviously used to . |
| 15 | So although lexicographers may purposely employ experts to contribute to the compilation of definitions in more esoteric domains , it is nevertheless the case that more everyday words will have more widely understood patterns of usage that are reflected in both the definitions they possess and the manner in which they are used in a typical business letter . |
| 16 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 17 | This is offered to all the artists they sign . |
| 18 | I did n't choose to live next to a reservoir … what I want from you is an assurance that your company will compensate everyone affected for all the losses they incur because of the reservoir ( everyone cheers ) . |
| 19 | It was the home of a very wealthy man , a man she had recognised as wealthy the moment she had seen him . |
| 20 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 21 | They must have got rid of all the junk they could find in their store-rooms . |
| 22 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 23 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 24 | But if it is not bound by such a policy it can induce a large increase in the money supply and prevent the recession , or at least bring it to an end quickly . |
| 25 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 26 | She might very well have just arrived for all the notice he took of her . |
| 27 | Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has . |
| 28 | The doctor cut off all the drugs he was taking with no ill effects . |
| 29 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 30 | To save money the government has now cut by one-third the money it is spending on the resettlement area . |