Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 2 | The questioner , however , was not so easily fobbed off and used a familiar gambit in an attempt to get Sir Denys to open up . |
| 3 | The moon had come up and laid a greenish iridescence on the surface of the lake . |
| 4 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 5 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 6 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 7 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 8 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 9 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
| 10 | Philip , however , seems to have overplayed his hand , demanding that Henry surrender Pacy-sur-Eure as security while the exchange was being carried out and causing the English King to break off the conference in indignation . |
| 11 | He was on hand to take the pass after Kilford had broken through and ended a fine performance by setting up wing Byrom for a try . |
| 12 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 13 | Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before . |
| 14 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 15 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 16 | So you must n't , not only must n't you worry you 've got to be perfectly made up and have a super figure you know while you 're making tanks or or whatever . |
| 17 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 18 | ‘ When the first High Queen cheated the curse by creating the Enchantment of the Bloodline , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ the sorceress is said to have turned back and made a curious prophecy . |
| 19 | The two officers gave chase but Dunsheath suddenly turned round and brandished an open Lock Knife at one of them , PC Adams . |
| 20 | The two officers gave chase but Dunsheath suddenly turned round and brandished an open lock knife at one of them . |
| 21 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |
| 22 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 23 | ( The same year , Wayne had acted in and directed the gung-ho Green Berets , which supported US military involvement in Vietnam . ) |
| 24 | Alternatively , you can have a new will drawn up and revoke the old one . |
| 25 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 26 | Mambo graphics had long crossed over and splattered the high street , while surfer-turned-designer Shawn Stussy was being lined up by BBC2 ( in its The Look ) as a street version of Ralph Lauren , a marketeer with a useful line in Californian surfer drawl . |
| 27 | The recalcitrant firm , dependent on telephone selling , could n't afford to have its lines tied up and waved the white flag together with a cheque . |
| 28 | President Nicéphore Soglo , who was flown to hospital in Paris on March 28 after defeating Mathieu Kérékou in the presidential elections [ see p. 38084 ] , flew home on April 3 to be sworn in and to appoint a provisional government , before returning to Paris for further treatment on April 13 . |
| 29 | The only person to have both competed in and managed a British Olympic team , to have become that sport 's national president , and to have held virtually every administrative office from keeper of the records to team coach , and from time keeper to national selector . |
| 30 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |