Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [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 | Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | JOCKEY Jeff Lloyd gets kicked out of the saddle this week-end — but it 's all in the rules of the game . |
| 12 | They 're great chums now , Durkin has even been invited out to the house several times . ’ |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent . |
| 14 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Got hosed out by the council this morning . |
| 17 | A woman with a shotgun stepped out onto the path some way ahead . |
| 18 | It took a long time , so long that Sylvie had almost given up , had gone back to the clinic several times . |
| 19 | The first defendant passed on to the plaintiff this indication of interest by Mr. Perot . |
| 20 | • 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 23 | Not only that , but he had worked out in the gym that morning , then managed a half-hour nap before heading out for an unusually late lunchtime start from the VIP terminal at Heathrow . |
| 24 | Erm , what 's the current , it 's a bit d , difficult terminology here , what 's the current cost taken out of the fund each month for expenses ? |
| 25 | It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon . |
| 26 | These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews . |
| 27 | When they are first chipped out of the rock such fossils will often be partly concealed by matrix . |