Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 2 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 3 | It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system . |
| 4 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 5 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 6 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 7 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 8 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 9 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 10 | He was aware that it was trite , but the alternative was to express the scepticism that had grown inside him in the intervening days . |
| 11 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 12 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 13 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 14 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 15 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 16 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |
| 17 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 18 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 19 | This was the line taken by the No More War Movement , and most of the socialist left agreed with it in the early 1930s . |
| 20 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 21 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
| 22 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 23 | Squashed against her in the tiny hall , he dripped water and spluttered apologies . |
| 24 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 25 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 26 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 27 | The cutting form is a board with steel blades set into it in the desired shape . |
| 28 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 29 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 30 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |