Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment . |
| 2 | But , as Maxim had realised the evening before , her training was in hunting , not being hunted . |
| 3 | Most had , fortuitously , travelled the night before . |
| 4 | There have always been the eccentrics and academics who have travelled the East only to return home to announce great spiritual discoveries . |
| 5 | Employers may offer such contracts with a view to making them permanent once they are satisfied that you have completed the course successfully . |
| 6 | Over 500 candidates have completed the course so far and all have visited Lyles . |
| 7 | West have completed the boat well . |
| 8 | Fiona Lee made it 2–2 when she squeezed the ball in at the near post , but Shorney restored Slough 's advantage with her second penalty after Crook had stopped the ball illegally . |
| 9 | the rain has n't stopped the tennis today … |
| 10 | the rain has n't stopped the tennis today … |
| 11 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 12 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 13 | When a complaint is received the committee generally seeks further clarification from the firm . |
| 14 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 15 | Professor Pieter Kooijmans , former Vice-Chairman of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations , opened the Symposium by reading a letter from a prisoner , which he had received the week before . |
| 16 | On the other hand , I have discoed the night away in Marina di Massa and had payment waived in Copenhagen when I was visibly kroner-less . |
| 17 | If Isabel had hated the situation as much as she claimed to , she could have refused to serve Matilda and sought refuge in a convent . |
| 18 | Friends of the Earth has criticized the aid thus far given as being " directed to patching up and bolting on gismos , rather than developing alternative systems " . |
| 19 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 20 | Lorton had calculated the alibi carefully . |
| 21 | He had even painted the convent where I had sought consolation in my early homesickness and had agreed with Mother Joseph that I should apply to the Mother House to be accepted as a postulant and return in the course of time , if God so willed , as a professed nun to help her teach the children and grow the herbs and milk the goats and say the prayers in the cool chapel . |
| 22 | Ooh I 've painted the door today . |
| 23 | If that bedroom painted the wall there . |
| 24 | They have painted the building twice inside and outside . |
| 25 | I have altered the depth consistently during the day and have tempted some fish almost two feet off the bottom . |
| 26 | However , the increase in legislation and in consumer power have altered the balance so that schools , if they are to survive and be effective , must be sensitive and responsive to the demands of the external environment . |
| 27 | Other far-reaching changes in the modern world have also made their mark on theology , notably the immense advances in science and technology , and the accelerating contact and interaction between different races and cultures in what it is now normal to call ‘ the global village ’ , The explosion of science and the application of its discoveries have altered the world even of our grandfathers beyond recognition . |
| 28 | One job , to paint an ambassador 's wife in Paris , ended in a shouting match after she had altered the canvas overnight , painting in crude alterations to the eyes and mouth . |
| 29 | If he had n't provoked the argument then he had certainly seized on it with relish . |
| 30 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |