Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 2 | There 's a feeling of belonging and caring ; the demonstrators seem bonded together by a common link . |
| 3 | As we approach the site , coming off the freeway , we get caught up in a four mile tailback , as there 's only one entrance to the fairground . |
| 4 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 6 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 7 | And they 've come up with a splendid route , over 80 miles of miles of deep valley walks , riverside and forest walks ending with a cliff top section at Filey . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 9 | The young ( you can see it in their faces ) , the stegosaurus rugged no-hopers , the parrot-crested blankies — they 've come up with an appropriate response to this , which is : nothing . |
| 10 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 11 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 12 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 13 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 14 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 15 | If that is all you 've got even with a double lock , locking action it is very easy to open up . |
| 16 | You 've got off to a good start , Deirdra , so keep writing — and reading ! |
| 17 | They 've got off to a good start with a pair of eighteen carat gold and turquoise earrings donated by the Elizabeth Gage company of London . |
| 18 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 19 | The point is that we will never know what God can do with us until we 've ventured forward with a little faith . |
| 20 | I share the spoils with Sunil , to whom I 've spoken vaguely about an eccentric rich friend . |
| 21 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 22 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 23 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 24 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 25 | No , Chief has n't set any questions , erm , the other change to this has been to remove the fire 's special interest and we 've put in as a separate paper , so that we can bring them up to date . |
| 26 | It sounds like you 've ended up with a reasonable machine in the end , though , and Works is a good integrated software package . |
| 27 | ‘ Instead of which you 've ended up with a half-grown female in a hat like a tea-cosy . |
| 28 | There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 . |
| 29 | Across ashen , unredeemable scenes , Shakespeare 's words resound with redoubled force and humanity ; they sound almost ironic , in their fruitless reaching towards the images and emotions which have drained away from a soulless , monochrome universe . |
| 30 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |