Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Too often both policy makers and practitioners get trapped in a vicious circle ’ which involves research as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Become embroiled in a seamy sex scandal . |
| 9 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 10 | Creator and created become locked in a life-and-death relationship . ’ |
| 11 | There are also major problems with compaction and the abandoned ranches become covered in a stunted tangle of indigenous pioneers and exotics . |
| 12 | Recently , these in vitro observations have been substantiated by results from early animal and human clinical tests , and phosphorylcholine technology has now become established in a wide range of medical services . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 15 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
| 16 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 17 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 18 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 19 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 20 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 21 | people who 've died in a similar way . |
| 22 | is the stuff that I 've got in a little bag , got little bag full |
| 23 | ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee . |
| 24 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 25 | I 've played in a certain town that makes linoleum where the audience did not laugh once . |
| 26 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 27 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 28 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
| 29 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 30 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |