Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I imagine those who appeal would carry on paying the bill until the outcome is resolved and then receive a rebate with interest if necessary , ’ said Mr Collin .
2 I hauled it when the weather permitted and invariably found a lobster or two in it , or even a fish of some sort .
3 I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family .
4 We should have SOME games in the season where we are outplayed and yet get a result .
5 Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country .
6 In practice , we first form a column of skip means alongside the values to be smoothed and then form a column of the required smoothed values .
7 He said he would wait another week to see if the injury healed and then make a decision — if he steps down , leading batsman Javed Miandad may lead the team .
8 During the year , Mortgage Asset Management Limited has been further developed and now has a portfolio totalling £74 million .
9 In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information .
10 This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers .
11 The reasons for these declines in late-age mortality are not well understood but probably reflect a variety of factors including better health care and improvements in nutrition and other aspects of living conditions as well as improvements in the availability and quality of medical care .
12 Between 1740 and 1760 there was introduced and popularly used a sauce-boat in the shape of a shell , sitting on a short-stemmed , moulded foot .
13 The trees and shrubs wavering in the wind had stilled and now resembled a child 's Plasticine world .
14 Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups .
15 More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 .
16 I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " .
17 In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch .
18 Imaging quality has been vastly improved and now includes a 3D facility . ’
19 It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it .
20 Situated just a mile from Kirchberg centre , the hotel has recently been completely re-furbished and now offers a sauna , table tennis and bicycle hire free of charge .
21 Will the Foreign Secretary keep the House informed and perhaps make a statement when the House returns after the recess ?
22 At 4 a.m. it was purely by chance that Bob Newman first heard that Tweed had murdered and then raped a girl .
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