Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I have little patience for people who waste their time on idle speculation without any evidence to support their suspicions — and now , ’ he continued inexorably , ‘ since we understand each other , I suggest you go and have your shower , get dressed and eat some breakfast . |
| 2 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
| 3 | I am the only woman you 've felt like this about , the only woman you 've kissed and caressed this way . |
| 4 | POLICE have stopped and searched 9,124 people in Strathclyde during the past three weeks as part of Operation Blade and found 126 carrying knives and 66 other types of weapons . |
| 5 | At some points in the history of a given society people have rebelled and challenged this inequality ; at other points they have meekly accepted their subordination ; but probably most of the time people adopt a posture midway between these two extremes . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 7 | Former civilisations have regarded and treated older people in very different ways . |
| 8 | In the opening pages of the book I referred to the pragmademic gap that seems to exist between pragmatists who have not had the benefit of a formal systems education , but might wish to make use of soft systems ideas , and those who have developed and applied these ideas at a more academic level . |
| 9 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 10 | FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALITEX HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT SUPERIOR STRUCTURES FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY . |
| 11 | My Land Rover is a 1983 SWB Series III County station wagon , I notice that the steering does not have such good self centring action as previous models I have owned and requires more steering on the road . |
| 12 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 13 | such superficial analyses and solutions are not only insulting to women , they also ignore the distribution of power in society and the academic world , and the way in which males have appropriated and defended that power . |
| 14 | We have met and held each other and we 've kissed , but that 's all . " |
| 15 | Another reason why I chose London is because I know many of my countrymen have visited and have fond memories of their experience . |
| 16 | Another reason why I chose London is because I know many of my countrymen have visited and have fond memories of their experience . |
| 17 | The report presents the truth about conditions in what is , probably the poorest ( financially ) of all the countries I have visited and makes compelling reading ( if you like horror stories ) . |
| 18 | People have argued and slaughtered each other , have waged wars throughout the course of the last two thousand years over the way in which particular passages should be understood . |
| 19 | For example , two children , Simon a white boy , and Jane , a West Indian girl , are two children who have disturbed and disrupted this school ever since they came . |
| 20 | This section provides only a brief indication of the way in which therapists and clinicians have adopted and adapted this approach in working with children who have language difficulties . |
| 21 | Both novels see the world in colonial colours — as determined by empires , in the furtherance of which races have defeated and enslaved each other , in which they have met and married , in which a black mercenary might marry a daughter of Venice . |
| 22 | Here , the two people meet and each takes ten minutes to reflect on and verbalise the achievements that they have made and identify further needs . |
| 23 | The government 's liberalisation of planning controls , and changes to the Use Classes Order , have stimulated and sustained these trends and although the presumption against development in the Green Belt and open countryside remains , these areas are extremely attractive to developers . |
| 24 | However , other mammals are strongly attracted by them which will make it difficult for the perfume manufacturers , who have extracted and patented human copulins , to market them successfully . |
| 25 | We owe another debt to the local English citizens who have restored and revitalized this building as a tangible memorial to those men . |
| 26 | Men have practised and perfected these strategies for centuries in different contexts . |
| 27 | I have signed and numbered each print and they are available from ETA , London . |
| 28 | I have signed and numbered each print and they are available from ETA , London . |
| 29 | The reports have puzzled and confounded some experts . |
| 30 | We have strengthened and widened those powers compared with those that were available to authorities for the enforcement of the old domestic rates . |