Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 2 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 3 | Regression analyses were carried out based on the results of both otoscopy and tympanometry but only those for otoscopic findings are reported to avoid repetition . |
| 4 | The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals . |
| 5 | The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described . |
| 6 | Both tests were also carried out according to the manufacturers ' instructions . |
| 7 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 8 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 9 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 10 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 11 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 12 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 13 | The Board had been set up according to the provisions of the 1902 Education Act , which also created Local Education Authorities . |
| 14 | Our engineer friends had collected crusty rolls from the dining room and , after a few drinks themselves , had set out to experiment with the sea-gulls ' capacity for whiskey . |
| 15 | Garment workers , who were paid really bad wages and had a strike and struggled for union recognition , and I think that 's the thing that women have gone on doing over the years . |
| 16 | You might imagine that somehow the discrepancy in Figure 5.2 can be explained by supposing that the planets have withheld from the atmosphere different proportions of their supply of the different isotopes . |
| 17 | It was in two pieces , both black , as if they had been thrown up charred from the fires of hell . |
| 18 | Anyway things got quite hot and eventually one of the guides was sent over to talk to the Indians and the word came back that they would n't share their camp with us anyway , which is quite funny I suppose . |
| 19 | The windows to either side had been thrown wide as well , and the ends of the tattered old curtains had blown out to hang over the sills . |