Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Ratter had arranged for me to attend several training courses , including the two-day ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 2 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 3 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 4 | It seems as if the time has come for you to bring this side of life to the fore , and even without your co-operation other people will persuade you that being independent does not mean being alone . |
| 5 | Her teeth caught in her trembling lower lip for a moment . |
| 6 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 7 | I advised the Camerons to ensure that both dogs always moved towards them to receive any affection , and preferably sat on command before receiving it . |
| 8 | Any significant criticisms made of you deserve careful attention . |
| 9 | The Companies Act 1989 and regulations made under it allow listed companies to issue summary financial statements to those shareholders who do not wish to receive the full annual report and accounts . |
| 10 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 11 | Rods made from them become treasured possessions . |
| 12 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 13 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |
| 14 | So if the offer is made to you to work shorter hours , think carefully about these aspects , and what it will do to your pension . |
| 15 | Despite some unavoidable differences between the theoretical and actual pendulums , the phenomena exhibited by them show good correspondence . |
| 16 | yeah so they 've agreed for me to take fifteen pound a week instead of ten |
| 17 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 18 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 19 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 20 | Lucy went — and as she walked back to the office she wondered what had got into her to cause such unruliness of her tongue and to bring her claws to the surface . |
| 21 | The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients . |
| 22 | It had never occurred to her to get any sort of job . |
| 23 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |
| 24 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 25 | In addition , the defendants gave undertakings to the plaintiff , one of which was as follows : Any information which I have access to or knowledge which I acquire arising out of or in the course of my contract of service shall remain confidential and shall not be used by me to obtain any gain , benefit or advantage or profits for myself or for any member of my family or connected person . |
| 26 | Esteemed , nevertheless , by foreign secretaries , such as Robert Banks Jenkinson ( later second Earl of Liverpool ) and George Canning [ qq.v. ] , he was used by them to train budding diplomats such as ( Sir ) Augustus John Foster and Stratford Canning ( later first Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe ) [ qq.v . ] . |
| 27 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 28 | In January 1989 the human rights organization Amnesty International urged the government to investigate numerous killings of trade union leaders and called for it to take immediate action over the suspected participation of police and members of the judiciary in harassment of and death threats against peasant leaders . |
| 29 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 30 | However , the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore has shown that although the hyacinth is relatively rich in crude protein , protein extracted from it contains large quantities of unfavourable minerals . |