Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 2 | Something that if ever , ever sorted out the bleeper hopefully in future I 'll be on bleeper , and then if that sort of thing happens |
| 3 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 4 | He has now moved over a mile away from Youngs ' home . |
| 5 | All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day . |
| 6 | They had trampled down the rye ahead of their line to make a killing ground some sixty yards deep and , judging by the sound of their musketry , the Dutch-Belgian skirmishers were fighting with a brisk energy . |
| 7 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 8 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 9 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 10 | The review panel was set up a year ago under the chairmanship of Professor Ron Edwards of Cardiff University . |
| 11 | The air ambulance was set up a year ago as an experiment . |
| 12 | The inquiry was set up a year ago by the Howard League for Penal Reform following a spate of suicides at Feltham since August 1991 . |
| 13 | Clerical Medical has set up a fund specifically for the investment , whereas the others are relying on their existing pools of money . |
| 14 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 15 | It was a triumph that also set up the Kiwis nicely for a surprise win over the seventh-seeded Italians . |
| 16 | ‘ Just that I 've found out a bit more about our friend Martin 's business dealings , and , more importantly , who he 's dealing with . |
| 17 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 18 | The size of the speaker has gone up a notch here to 10″ , with the dimension of the ports increased accordingly . |
| 19 | Miranda had swung out the bidet now from under the basin and was rapidly dunking her feet in it , a procedure Xanthe watched in surprise . |
| 20 | It is a team photo taken on the pitch shortly after the presentation of the championship trophy . |
| 21 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |
| 22 | It has identified a problem and has worked out a solution probably by trial and error ; and the solution has involved the making and using of a tool . |