Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 2 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 3 | During election night itself , we were reminded of what a splendid performer Robin Day is . |
| 4 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 5 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 6 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 8 | ‘ The bankruptcy of a debtor … shall be deemed to have relation back to , and to commence at , the time of the act of bankruptcy being committed on which a receiving order is made against him … |
| 9 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 10 | Around the gate and the two fire-engines parked by it a little knot of spectators was gathering , increasing by the minute , kept at a distance by two superbly imperturbable members of the Lancashire County force . |
| 11 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 12 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 13 | Much has been said about what a Labour Government could and could not do , but I am certain that a Labour Government would set out with the best of intentions to improve the situation . |
| 14 | These beleaguered firms are still seen as what a national newspaper journalist has called the " barrow boys " of the share industry , whereas stockbrokers are seen as more respectable . |
| 15 | By 1919 Japan had secured for herself a formal position as one of the world 's most powerful nations . |
| 16 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 17 | Funny thing , I had n't noticed before what a one-horse town this was . |
| 18 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 19 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 20 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | The actual retraining of walking in physiotherapy may require that one has imposed on one a new sequence of movements , a sequence quite different from that of the false folk theory , and one that the patient might not be able to construct without the expert help of the physiotherapist . |
| 22 | I have already pointed out that law has imposed on itself a self-denying ordinance in its relation to the personal . |
| 23 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 24 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 25 | Ken was a great fan of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Ramsey , and talked about him a great deal . |
| 26 | A client bought from him a large quantity of shares in an infamous CTC stock which went bust . |
| 27 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 28 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 29 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 30 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |