Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 2 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 3 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 4 | 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord . |
| 5 | Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH teenager is happy at home and one in three do not want to leave the parental nest ever , according to a survey carried out by The Indy this week . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) The purpose of the questions and the need for the interview , on this occasion , is to obtain information relevant to an investigation being carried out by the Office such information being necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to third parties . |
| 8 | Other players who have turned out for the Nomads this season include the likes of Peter Dixon and Brian and Harry Patrick . |
| 9 | Recalling that swinging ‘ 67 start , the dry Scouser said : ‘ I expected to be chucked out by the BBC any moment then . ’ |
| 10 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 11 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 12 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 13 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 14 | JOCKEY Jeff Lloyd gets kicked out of the saddle this week-end — but it 's all in the rules of the game . |
| 15 | They 're great chums now , Durkin has even been invited out to the house several times . ’ |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent . |
| 17 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 18 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
| 19 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 20 | I was thinking particularly of my great-uncle George , the stories he had told , men pulled out of the sea half burned alive , the sudden explosions as another slow cargo vessel slid to the bottom , nobody stopping for survivors and the feeling of terror as the U-boats gradually picked the ships off until the one he was on was alone in the pattern . |
| 21 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 22 | Got hosed out by the council this morning . |
| 23 | A woman with a shotgun stepped out onto the path some way ahead . |
| 24 | It took a long time , so long that Sylvie had almost given up , had gone back to the clinic several times . |
| 25 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 26 | The first defendant passed on to the plaintiff this indication of interest by Mr. Perot . |
| 27 | The deputy chief of France 's air and border police , Mr Pierre Quilici , said the warning had been passed on by the Americans several days ago . |
| 28 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 29 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 30 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |