Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 2 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 3 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 4 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 5 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 6 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 7 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 8 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 9 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the BAF were ‘ sad for Jason Livingston , ’ but added : ‘ We have carried out the right procedures and we would fight any court case to the bitter end to defend our position . ’ |
| 10 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 11 | Stewart-David completed the Val conversions and also built up the droppable torpedoes and bombs to be used . |
| 12 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 13 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 14 | However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd have got out the padded shoulders and the four-inch heels had I known you were going to appear looking like someone whom Central Casting had sent to play — ’ her gaze flicked over his well-groomed appearance and immaculate suit ‘ — the Wall Street tycoon , ’ she said astringently . |
| 16 | She 's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something . |
| 17 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 18 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 19 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 20 | These points generally apply equally whether the action is brought in the High Court or county court . |
| 21 | Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them . |
| 22 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 23 | Fragments of rock , and of Mait , flung backwards by the blast , also set off the other bomb and in moments , several tens of yards of ceiling had collapsed in . |
| 24 | Driven up the dead end and gone zonk , zonk , like that ! |
| 25 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 26 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 27 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 28 | ‘ The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre but they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland . |
| 29 | Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report . |
| 30 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |