Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 2 | District and county councils have given the scheme their full support and hope the programme will meet with the same success as Darlington 's pioneering Railside Revival scheme . |
| 3 | District and county councils throughout the region have given the scheme their full support . |
| 4 | In 1980 , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , a DinDisc act , had given the company their biggest selling album of an otherwise disastrous year . |
| 5 | The teachers have given the parents their full backing . |
| 6 | The National Assembly had given the bill its first reading in November 1990 [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 8 | Since then two related developments have given the group its unusual character . |
| 9 | Lili had given the outfit her qualified approval . |
| 10 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 11 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 12 | Regional pride , the growth of language and caste-based movements , suspicion of the Hindi-speaking north , have eroded the support which national parties used to enjoy . |
| 13 | It is they who have shaped the landscapes we all love . |
| 14 | What had startled the dogs whose frenzied barking had disturbed the sheep ? |
| 15 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 16 | A new book of unusual views of Oxfordshire has been published , featuring the work of a photographer who 's made the county his adopted home . |
| 17 | Then , suddenly , a Paris administrative court , in response to action by just seven residents , over-ruled the go-ahead which French tennis officials had received from the City Hall , including the Mayor , Jacques Chirac , who is an avid tennis fan . |
| 18 | He had only had the reports himself last night . |
| 19 | On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out . |
| 20 | Th there , there 's , there 's nothing , I mean I , I the points so , i i i in a sense although the revolution had promised the peasant their own land |
| 21 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 22 | Probyn has told the police his estranged wife left his house at Longney after they 'd had a row , and listened tape recordings of a conversation between herself and her new boyfriend . |
| 23 | Majority shareholder Bill Kenyon , who quit as chairman after being targeted by angry fans , has sold the group his controlling interest . |
| 24 | At New Year 1983 it screened the light-hearted ‘ One In Five ’ : it has also shown the film My Beautiful Laundrette , the sitcom ‘ Cornerhouse ’ , documentaries such as ‘ Veronica 4 Rose ’ , ‘ Breaking The Silence ’ and ‘ Bright Eyes ’ , and the fictional ‘ Domestic Bliss ’ . |
| 25 | If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps . |
| 26 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 27 | Although the number of ‘ high-bay ’ systems constructed in the United Kingdom to date is relatively few the companies who have made this kind of investment have done so because they have clearly recognised the advantages which such systems offer . |
| 28 | And the issue has brought the council its biggest postbag , with more than 2,000 letters or forms 920 against development , 1,333 in support . |
| 29 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 30 | He rejected calls for his resignation as DLP executive chairman , however , arguing that it was the government 's poor economic record rather than the DLP 's inadequate election campaign which had cost the party its legislative majority . |