Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously changed the clock around — there are many filled in holes in the front — which implies it was a pioneering , experimental piece . |
| 2 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 3 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 4 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 5 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 6 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 7 | I learned the basics of welding at college and have picked up tips from the experts while working on my scrap metal cows at Beamish Tram Shed and a pipe factory in Hebburn on Tyneside . |
| 8 | The press quickly picked up rumours of the project and upset Lutyens with garbled and inaccurate descriptions : ‘ Such a bore , ’ he wrote to his wife . |
| 9 | PRINCESS Anne and the Queen Mother both carried out duties in the City of London yesterday . |
| 10 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 11 | During 1992 , more than 30 film crews have carried out features on the Group . |
| 12 | Netherwood has carried out modifications to the kit and relaunched it as the Rotorway Exec 90 , currently selling for $35,000 including power plant . |
| 13 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 14 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 15 | A Le Monde report of Feb. 12 had cited refugee sources in Kenya to the effect that ex-President Barre had handed over arms to the SPM in the south . |
| 16 | Often the problem can be solved at once ; other questions have shown up problems with the data or with the SASPAC91 software . |
| 17 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 18 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 19 | The LDDC has opened up committees to the public . |
| 20 | Genetic engineering has opened up possibilities for the introduction of genes which confer the ability to produce either insecticidal toxins or semiochemicals which alter insect behaviour . |
| 21 | Yeah , we 've drawn out deadlines for the books to be copied and , and it will be launched at Easter . |
| 22 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 23 | Only complete wi tore up squerrs of the Mantchester Guardian . |
| 24 | They destroy worn out organelles within the cell ( see page 10 notes for diagram ) . |
| 25 | For certain classes of property the Government has laid down rules about the level of standard charge . |
| 26 | He denied reports that he had laid down conditions for the withdrawal of his resignation , and said that the inquiry was " not dependent on one person " and would go on . |
| 27 | Top up insurance can not be obtained with unlimited cover , and may be made subject to certain other conditions , eg the exclusion of indemnity in respect of claims brought in courts in the USA . |
| 28 | We also , in the Broadcasting Act , brought in sanctions against the transmission of offensive satellite broadcasts from abroad , and made it an offence for advertisers and equipment suppliers to support such programmes . |
| 29 | At first wind pumps were used , then steam pumps which used coal brought in barges along the rivers and canals . |
| 30 | A day of B westerns brought in fans by the droves . |