Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain . |
| 2 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 3 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 4 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 5 | Starvation overcomes all , and the brightly coloured succumb along with the cryptic . |
| 6 | He scooped mud on to his forehead and cheeks and kept close in under the dripping leaf canopy cloaking the bank . |