Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 3 | The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped . |
| 4 | ‘ All calls will be treated confidentially and there should be no fear at all of their identity being disclosed . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Wolski was interested in this because he himself had seen the RSPB man at the Zoo yesterday and had heard unofficially that their real worry was that someone might try to trap or shoot the bird . |
| 7 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 8 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 9 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 10 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 11 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |
| 12 | Now if you did a pi squared on that it might come out significant , I do n't know . |
| 13 | Notations are generally taught long before their significance is apparent . |
| 14 | But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air . |
| 15 | That chimney turned out to be the only delicate part of the building and scaffolding had to be erected so that it could be rebuilt . |
| 16 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 17 | Some sort of canvas covers that can be stripped so that I 'm Luftwaffe again for the trip back . ’ |
| 18 | but er I do n't know if you can get this information to er to your fellow students but it really concerns the graduation rehearsal which takes place on er Friday erm on Friday we 're going out er as a group on Friday afternoon at one fifteen to Church House er to run through the rehearsal procedure er the graduation it 's important that on that day that you bring along your robes bring your robes with you and bring your , bring them along , they should be pressed so that you can er wear them er the you should also please |
| 19 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
| 20 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 21 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 22 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 23 | The local authorities need to know now how the standard spending assessments will be calculated so that they can make definite financial plans . |
| 24 | And since that state of stability had been calculated so that it would not commence deterioration until the next inspection had been completed , Rostov had delegated command of the bridge to Yuan , and had elected to watch the performance of his technical officers at close quarters . |
| 25 | They have an ingenious device called a " lens ' , whose shape appears to be mathematically calculated so that it bends these silent rays in such a way that there is an exact one-to-one mapping between objects in the world and an " image " on a sheet of cells called the " retina " . |
| 26 | However , they should be prescribed only where there are definite indications . |
| 27 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 28 | Her hair had fallen down and there were scattered hairpins everywhere . |
| 29 | It had fallen down when she had pushed the door open . |
| 30 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |