Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small white plastic bag containing various packets of waxed paper marked ‘ For Foodstuffs ’ lay propped against the gear-lever of the little Fiat . |
| 2 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 3 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 4 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 5 | Does he not therefore find it extraordinary that the Labour and Liberal parties remain committed to the abolition of grant maintained schools and that in local government they are waging a relentless campaign against G M schools , as typified by the behaviour of Essex County Council . |
| 6 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 7 | SWAP operated under the aegis of the Royal Society , giving it credibility in the eyes of the press and the collaborating Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . |
| 8 | But all Northern Ireland 's businessmen appear frustrated by the lack of interest from their mainland colleagues . |
| 9 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 10 | The system could not be fully cost justified on the savings of labour alone . |
| 11 | It all but sunk Pompey and put United on the crest of the wave . |
| 12 | Hitler 's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations . |
| 13 | In general , owners seem fascinated by the number of stitches their pets have after surgery . |
| 14 | Is this the same as Carl , who we transfer listed at the end of last season ? |
| 15 | ‘ I have snapped my squeaking baby-trumpet of sedition , ’ he wrote in April 1798 , ‘ and the fragments lie scattered in the lumber-room of penitence . |
| 16 | One year after the US invaded Panama with 30,000 troops on December 20 , 1989 , and removed General Manuel Noriega from power ( see SR Feb 1990 ) , significant issues surrounding that invasion seem destined for the dustbin of ‘ murky endings ’ . |
| 17 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 18 | As for guitars , The Stairs travel armed to the teeth with a motley collection of Gibson semi-acoustics . |
| 19 | With Girlschool reconvened , and the arrival of Jackie Carrera on bass , they seem poised at the beginning of a newish era , but what have been the high spots of the band 's history so far ? |
| 20 | We now stand poised on the brink of a great new episode in European evolution and I am proud that the party of which I am a member has taken our country forward and is now leading the way to a sustainable economic and political union . |
| 21 | In Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , two Indian men , Farishta and Chamcha , fall out of an aeroplane and hang suspended in the air before landing on the shore of Britain , where they begin to reconstruct their identities . |
| 22 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 23 | The Conflict Prevention Centre does have an emergency mechanism , under which a consultative committee can call crisis meetings , but the Centre 's actions remain bound by the requirement of unanimity . |
| 24 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 25 | Used regularly the short clippings get hidden below the surface of the lawn so you do n't have to dispose of them , but long grass is left in bands on the surface and usually needs to be raked up and removed . |
| 26 | The rougher the surface , the darker the wash will appear when dry , as pools of colour get trapped within the tooth of the textured sheet . |
| 27 | ‘ You get sucked into the world of married couples , and it 's hard to keep up with bachelor friends . |
| 28 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 29 | But the Horde have always had other off-duty characters and both Simon 's fascination with Bryan Ferry and their collective alternative identity as the Last Bandits get reintegrated into the fold with the two ballads , ‘ Over Here ’ , and ‘ Friends In Time ’ . |
| 30 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |