Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt 's interpretation would increase the participants in all disputes by designating any protesting State a party , whether or not the actions protested against affected it directly . |
| 2 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 3 | ‘ And when I 've succeeded in convincing you , will I get to see this more often ? |
| 4 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 5 | Educational practices can retard changes , or stigmatise them ( this is relevant to the question of generic he , which is often still insisted on by teachers ) ; publishing and the mass media can popularise a word , or conversely , fail to legitimate it ( quality newspapers , most famously the New York Times , for years refused to print the word Ms , even if the woman being written about preferred it ) . |
| 6 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 7 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 8 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 9 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 10 | Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out . |
| 11 | Professional education and training inevitably create such a social and educational gap between the providers of the services and working-class users that unless efforts are made to narrow it or close it , working-class people will make less adequate use of services . |
| 12 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 13 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 14 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 15 | ‘ Er — Jim 's just got to OK it with the boss , ’ he said uncertainly . |
| 16 | Creating this world and all the , the millions of worlds and spa , and galaxies and , and all the rest of creation , that was child 's play compared to forgiving you and me . |
| 17 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 18 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 19 | Three other girls I 've spoken to said they did n't tell their mums till they were six months pregnant . |
| 20 | However , whenever TEST_MODE is set to FALSE they will be entered into LIFESPAN , provided they satisfy the criteria defined above . |
| 21 | If the grid lines are printed in blue they will not show up so clearly when the plot is photocopied ( which is usually an advantage ) . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's good as gold is my ole mum , but now me farvver 's gone on short-time she 's feelin' the pinch . |
| 23 | Where such expenditure is a new cost incurred through Compact it may be possible to make a case to the Training Agency . |
| 24 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 25 | He even intimated that they had tried to corrupt him by sending female temptresses to seduce him in his Cambridge rooms . |
| 26 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 27 | she had me sent to certified me sane . |
| 28 | Recently , having seen an advertisement in a local shop for free curtain making , I was again tempted to given it a try . |
| 29 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 30 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |