Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric had rolled over and had one hand under his head , the other over his eyes . |
| 2 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 3 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 4 | unc unc Remember how the metric tables are built up and learn these comparisons . |
| 5 | The settlement pit in a sand and gravel works was well stirred up and discharging large amounts of solids into the river . |
| 6 | I felt I was being pushed around and lost some enthusiasm . ’ |
| 7 | We have come from the country to a city , and I shall have a chance to get settled in and find new friends before they all take off . |
| 8 | The benefits which you would derive from a properly set up and run computerised accounting system should more than out-weigh the additional costs involved . |
| 9 | The Insurance begins as soon as your Home Improvement Loan has been set up and covers all repayments up to £750 per month and an overall total of £30,000 . |
| 10 | The remains of the robbers getaway car found burnt out and abandoned 2 miles from the scene of the attack . |
| 11 | This was the view expressed by Anne Smith about Bellerby Feast which , like so many other traditions , was tottering on the very brink of extinction in 1985 when it was pulled back and had new life breathed into it . |
| 12 | Chairman some of us have already slipped out and made those phone calls could n't somebody else not do the same ? |
| 13 | I du n no , I think she just , probably gone down and played some records or something . |
| 14 | Studies in France and other countries had revealed the extent to which forests were being cut down and showed that deforestation had a range of harmful consequences . |
| 15 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 16 | You might find it 's a little bit strange me stood up here talking to you about temporary labour , part-time workers , when you 've heard what Asda 's gone through and said temporary labour situations all morning . |
| 17 | The ideal source of information is therefore that collected prospectively , that is , from subjects in their childhood who are then followed up and re-interviewed many years later . |
| 18 | Some of Lancaster 's supporters who had escaped justice in 1322 were at large committing acts of banditry in the north-west , and a more general change of sentiment perhaps lay behind the petitions in the parliament of February 1324 that the rotting corpses of the rebels who had been hanged should be taken down and given decent burial . |
| 19 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 20 | His comments on the effects of injecting fresh stock into a subject area ( Chapter 12 ) are illuminating , and his chapter ( 13 ) on bookstock rotation ( exchanges ) is very fully worked out and makes required reading . |
| 21 | The lighthouse and cottages are still lived in and command extensive views of Hull waterfront and the Humber Bridge . |
| 22 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |