Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
2 | The questioner , however , was not so easily fobbed off and used a familiar gambit in an attempt to get Sir Denys to open up . |
3 | The moon had come up and laid a greenish iridescence on the surface of the lake . |
4 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
5 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
6 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
7 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
8 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
9 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
10 | In 1822 , following Macquarie 's departure , he was dismissed from the post , but during his short period of office he had carried out or initiated a remarkable number of substantial projects in Sydney and its neighbourhood , the most important being the Macquarie lighthouse ( c .1816–18 , demolished ) , the churches of Windsor ( c .1817 ) , Liverpool ( 1818–24 ) , and St James 's Sydney ( c .1820 ) , the stables at Government House ( 1817 ) , Fort Macquarie at Benelong Point ( c .1817 , demolished ) , and the Hyde Park convict barracks ( 1817 ) . |
11 | Philip , however , seems to have overplayed his hand , demanding that Henry surrender Pacy-sur-Eure as security while the exchange was being carried out and causing the English King to break off the conference in indignation . |
12 | He was on hand to take the pass after Kilford had broken through and ended a fine performance by setting up wing Byrom for a try . |
13 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
14 | Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before . |
15 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
16 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
17 | It was , however , also a period when complete adult suffrage was achieved , and in which a political consensus was built up that enabled the Labour Party to establish itself alongside the older parties , so that an element of working-class power developed without turning into a revolutionary force . |
18 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
19 | So you must n't , not only must n't you worry you 've got to be perfectly made up and have a super figure you know while you 're making tanks or or whatever . |
20 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
21 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
22 | The two officers gave chase but Dunsheath suddenly turned round and brandished an open Lock Knife at one of them , PC Adams . |
23 | The two officers gave chase but Dunsheath suddenly turned round and brandished an open lock knife at one of them . |
24 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |
25 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
26 | ( The same year , Wayne had acted in and directed the gung-ho Green Berets , which supported US military involvement in Vietnam . ) |
27 | Alternatively , you can have a new will drawn up and revoke the old one . |
28 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
29 | Mambo graphics had long crossed over and splattered the high street , while surfer-turned-designer Shawn Stussy was being lined up by BBC2 ( in its The Look ) as a street version of Ralph Lauren , a marketeer with a useful line in Californian surfer drawl . |
30 | The recalcitrant firm , dependent on telephone selling , could n't afford to have its lines tied up and waved the white flag together with a cheque . |