Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near hurricane force winds and free-roaming sheep put paid to early attempts at planting flowers and shrubs . |
| 2 | ‘ Carronade ’ was the first boat home , but ‘ Blush ’ and the First Europe ‘ Fraggle ’ ( Michael Nash CYC ) together and breathing down her neck less than two minutes behind put paid to any idea of victory for Peter Clements ( WMYC ) , and ‘ Blush ’ secured her second trophy of the weekend by a comfortable margin . |
| 3 | Papert explains that Reagan 's election in 1980 put paid to any hopes of obtaining public money to establish such a centre in the United states . |
| 4 | INSET courses are normally conceived for practising teachers who require refresher courses from time to time : when unqualified teachers take part in them , they remain classed as untrained teachers by the end of their course . |
| 5 | Meanwhile at Our Home the unspeakable ingrates seem bent on some sort of work-to-contract . |
| 6 | Whereas if you think your offspring are not gon na be particularly successful , you should have female offspring because they always get , get mated in this kind of , in this kind of set up . |
| 7 | He is also fan worshipped by one woman in particular sporting a Buddy sweatshirt . |
| 8 | ‘ You feel good being nominated for an Oscar , then you get turned into some kind of a loser when you do n't win . |
| 9 | ‘ It deals with kids who take up causes and get drawn into violent activities as a result . |
| 10 | So get rid of that bit of fence ? |
| 11 | And it would ta , take someone like that just to make them think , yeah , well , you know what is so funny in get rid of this sort of stigma about boys being immature . |
| 12 | Better that we get rid of these people in the Labour Party if they do not want our involvement let them go and form their own party , as a trade union ordinarily formed originally formed the Labour Party ! |
| 13 | You get rid of those hospitals in London , you 're gon na lose the opportunity , and the colleague from Liverpool summed it up , they shut a nursing college , right . |
| 14 | You 're the people who get trained in this sort of thing , not me , " Steven said indignantly , and tapped the desk once more , for emphasis . |
| 15 | Scum 0 Leeds 0 ; Leeds get criticised from all quarters for being negative . |
| 16 | Tracks get covered by wind-blown sand in minutes . |
| 17 | They feel pinched by rising costs in repairs and housing . |
| 18 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 19 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 20 | And we feel confirmed in this interpretation by its enabling us to answer the question , ‘ What does the word ‘ understand ’ stand for ? ’ with ‘ a mental process we have found to occur in ourselves ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ With the publication of Affliction I feel liberated from that obsession with domestic violence . ’ |
| 22 | Stepan Verkhovensky kits himself up with umbrella , travelling-bag , walking stick , broad-brimmed hat , belted overcoat and top-boots like a hussar 's ; and — Quixote overlaid for English readers by Pickwick , the White Knight , Mr Toad — he talks the language of ‘ high adventure ’ and the open road : ‘ there 's a great idea in the open road too ! ’ |
| 23 | For larger displacements the rotor and stator teeth become aligned in stable equilibrium at a distance which is a multiple of the rotor tooth pitch from the required step position . |
| 24 | What are essentially bilateral relationships between group and department in Britain have in the United States long become recognized as trilateral relationships of group , department and , because of its far greater role in the substance of legislation , Congress . |
| 25 | Professor Jose Fernandez-Britto , a world-renowned pathologist from Havana , has shown striking evidence of the death of cancer cells that become surrounded by fibrous tissue as a consequence of shark cartilage . |
| 26 | He praised the effort and resolve shown by part-time students in completing professional courses in addition to the daily challenges of full-time employment . |
| 27 | The majority of students become acclimatised to these sensations after a few flights , but every instructor is aware that some students are particularly sensitive to these feelings and can develop a total abhorrence of stalling and pitching manoeuvres . |
| 28 | The L3 enter the mucosa of any part of the small or large intestine and in some species ( Oe. columbianum , Oe. radiatum , Oe. quadrispinulatum ) become enclosed in obvious nodules in which the moult to L4 takes place ( P1.III ) . |
| 29 | It was a bit small for the wooden supports at the top of the cabinet but the totter got around that problem by nailing a couple of slats of wood on to the supports to act as a base . |
| 30 | The most primitive state is where the stamens are united basally and are numerous , curving inwards in a symmetrical flower as in Gustavia spp. , some of which are self-sterile ; small to medium-sized bees like species of the stingless Trigona leave pollen on the stigma and become dusted with new pollen from the stamens where they forage . |