Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inner cities no longer respond , because the communities have dissolved or become permanently disfigured . |
| 2 | It is far better to work out what help each can provide from the start than for one member of the family to be seriously overburdened or feel permanently aggrieved . |
| 3 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 4 | It was indescribable and I intensely disliked that spot ever since . |
| 5 | Most of us have not really solved that puzzle even today , but what did the question look like in the eighteenth century ? |
| 6 | Containers , drawers and shelves could be provided in the Home Corner , shop , etc. , so that articles can be sorted and put away . |
| 7 | At the same time step-parent adoptions have been discouraged and have almost halved since the Children Act 1975 . |
| 8 | Elders are widely respected and have high social status . |
| 9 | ‘ You have to turn possession into goals and it 's a worry because we 've played games this season — and this was another one — where we 've dominated and come away with nothing . ’ |
| 10 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 11 | Suitable source rocks , the remaining essential ingredient for a petroleum prospect , are expected but have yet to be proved . |
| 12 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 13 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 14 | It is necessary for the reader 's initiation into James 's world that he should hold his convictions in suspense , ie he should be aware that more things are hidden than have yet been shown . |
| 15 | I 've heard that name somewhere before ! ’ |
| 16 | I 've heard that play so many times in the past few days , I knew the lines was n't right . |
| 17 | I'ver not heard that attack yet anyway . ’ |
| 18 | It has gradually come to be accepted that there are no clear lines dividing normal and abnormal behaviour , only several continua on which people might be placed that shade very gradually from the recognizably normal to the clearly disturbed . |
| 19 | You will have gathered from what I have said that barbel really are a true shoal fish , and it is true to say that , as is the case with all true shoal fish , they school together with fish of like size . |
| 20 | I 've met people who 've said they 've , they 've enjoyed living in the flats , but all the people I 've known who 've said that have since moved out . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 22 | Constanza is able to put a name to it , she has seen that waterfront before but where ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've seen that face SOMEWHERE before … ’ |
| 24 | He had seen that happen before in Florence with what some of his friends referred to dismissively as ‘ half marriages ’ . |
| 25 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 26 | I 've never seen that happen before . |
| 27 | I 've seen that happen twice |
| 28 | I 've seen that happen too . |
| 29 | I had seen that look somewhere before , and memory suggested two pictures : one was from an old history book and showed Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine — ‘ The Queen went forth , stately and calm ’ ; , the other ( ‘ Tales from over the Border ’ ) showed a beautiful girl withdrawing modestly while a Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage . |
| 30 | As Moore looked into those eyes , he realized that he had seen that look before . |