Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 2 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 3 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 4 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 5 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 6 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 7 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 8 | er slung on us from another department . |
| 9 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 10 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 11 | In line with this , his observations are drawn , not from the consulting room , but from the mundanities of everyday intercourse , while very great pains are taken to record only what the narrator directly observed , or had reported to him on good authority . |
| 12 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 13 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 14 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 15 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 17 | She also had the costs of the case awarded against her — wiping out virtually all of the £334,000-worth of damages won by her in previous court actions against the press . |
| 18 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 19 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 20 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |
| 22 | It may also be appropriate to explain that we have been using both systems , side by side , for over two years with files being transferred between them throughout that time . |
| 23 | They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science . |
| 24 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 25 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 26 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 27 | The dispute had also moved against us in another way . |
| 28 | Heads of departments and institutions are indemnified by the University in respect of any claims made against them under civil law in connection with safety duties . |
| 29 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |
| 30 | The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter . |