Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
2 | A WELL thought out tribute to the classical talents of the late Valerie Thornton , this exhibition of paintings and etchings takes in her love for architecture , both ecclesiastical and vernacular . |
3 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
4 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
5 | With every move the visitor transfers from one ear to another , steps over the roughed out eye-socket of a sleeping figure , or dodges round a protruding nose . |
6 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
7 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
8 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
9 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
10 | Thus the Greater London Council proposed in their evidence to Williams that the law should prohibit any depictions ‘ which purport to portray an unlawful sexual act ’ , a course which might have ruled out sin as a serious subject for filmed drama . |
11 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
12 | JOHN PERMAN , the former depot manager at Charlton , has taken over responsibility for the primary distribution project from BOB PARLE to enable Bob to take up his new duties as departmental director , distribution operations , when Derek Graham retires in August . |
13 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
14 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
15 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
16 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
17 | Today a fully paid up member of the Conservative Party . |
18 | First , Franco still held out hope of a late Axis victory , believing — astonishingly — that Hitler possessed and would soon deploy secret weapons and " cosmic rays " . |