Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 2 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 3 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 4 | They arc shown as a dotted arrow . |
| 5 | This sense of purpose and of confinement to " legitimate " objectives is briefy conveyed in a single sentence describing events at Malmesbury : " They seized all the corn ; sold it at 5s [ 25p ] a bushel , and gave the money to the right owners . " |
| 6 | It can be seen that the Office machinery and data processing sector is particularly export orientated with an average 79% of turnover being aimed at overseas markets . |
| 7 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 8 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 9 | He loved to dwell also on the analogies between plants and animals , remarking in 1843 that ‘ both kingdoms seem pervaded by a double representation of each other ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They look organised with a good defence , and are playing with a great deal of confidence . ’ |
| 11 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 12 | Lacking only her native forest ( now probably half chewed away by acid rain ) , and the dorf ( whose last inhabitants ' bones still lie jumbled in a secret pit ) our Anya has found herself a little home from home . |
| 13 | You sound poised for a pleasant Christmas , which is nice . |
| 14 | When you plead guilty and you get sent in on remand , then you get treated like a sentenced prisoner , because you 're guilty . |
| 15 | ‘ Too often both policy makers and practitioners get trapped in a vicious circle ’ which involves research as well . |
| 16 | Away you go and get turned into a human being . |
| 17 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 18 | Here we will recover over one million tonnes of coal , partially by washing , and get rid of a major eyesore left by deep mining . |
| 19 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ; Ipswich get praised for a resolute defence . |
| 20 | Er , if you get known as a good supply teacher you 'll get the work to begin with , you might only get an odd day . |
| 21 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 22 | These are the most common questions I get asked as a social researcher . |
| 23 | And then you get put in a new place and you got to start all over again , finding where things are and making friends and that . |
| 24 | Pensions deal seen as a huge success |
| 25 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 26 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 27 | The gravest problems , however , were in Greece where British troops had restored a Royalist government in 1944 and become embroiled in a civil war with a Communist guerrilla movement . |
| 28 | Become embroiled in a seamy sex scandal . |
| 29 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 30 | The European car industry has increasingly become dominated by a small number of large companies . |