Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he added : ‘ The players who 've enjoyed the biggest success abroad have been those who 've blended in and learned the language . ’ |
| 2 | I just assumed he was there to get a tooth filled or something , but Andy must have broken in and switched the records then . ’ |
| 3 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 4 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 5 | A few of the more level headed ones , obviously relieved at the prospect of imminent rescue from the evil sect which had ensnared them , even joined in and lent a hand . |
| 6 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 7 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 8 | Then why not come down and have a day 's shooting next Saturday , ’ Fraser suggested . |
| 9 | They 've come down and give the lads tell the lads off . |
| 10 | The moment when Pascoe had sat down and taken a sip of the wine ! |
| 11 | Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades . |
| 12 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 13 | We were in a perfect position to attack the mountain from its north side once we had dropped down and crossed the river . |
| 14 | He had looked down and watched the body trembling and kicking . |
| 15 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 16 | All fatalities associated with this species have occurred when swimmers or divers have casually picked up and handled the octopus . |
| 17 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 18 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 20 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 21 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 22 | ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town . |
| 23 | thought I 'd better come round and have a chat . |
| 24 | No Claire came out last night she 's fallen over and got a hole in them with a pair of woolly tights . |
| 25 | Alerted by an electronic alarm at the politician 's Holywood home , scores of armed RUC men quickly moved in and surrounded the house at My Lady 's Mile . |
| 26 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 27 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 28 | They stopped it being watered down and prevented the part about combating discrimination from being taken out . |
| 29 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 30 | By the time Lowe settled down back in London , Wilson had bowed out and handed the mantle of Leader of the Labour Party and Guardian of British Socialism to James Callaghan , the right-wing Labour MP for Cardiff . |