Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |
| 2 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've cancelled my appointments for this morning … . |
| 4 | At this same time Force ‘ H ’ discharged its responsibilities for the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy to Admiral Cunningham 's force , the two fleets meeting some 40 miles south of Malta . |
| 5 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 6 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 7 | You 'll forgive me , sirs , but I 've forgotten your names for the moment . |
| 8 | Do n't choose aggressive , adrenaline-inducing activities but use exercise to activate the body fully as our nervous system and chemistry have primed our bodies for this purpose . |
| 9 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | This landing by Group 2 was deliberately made at the base of some sheer , snow-covered rocks 30 feet high , for no German machine-guns were likely to cover such an apparently impossible landing point , the enemy unaware the commandos had developed their techniques for such rough landings . |
| 11 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 12 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 13 | Fakrid and Jinkwa ambled smugly up , having completed their preparations for battle . |
| 14 | In response to what they characterise as changes in the market , Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , and SynOptics Communications Inc , Santa Clara , have adjusted their plans for joint development effort on RubSystem , which was to have combined their hub and router technologies into one high end hardware chassis . |
| 15 | A priestess of Isis , the beautiful Ayesha had broken her vows for love of a Greek soldier Kallikrates who , in his turn , was in danger because of his love for the Egyptian princess Amenartas . |
| 16 | She praised the gallantry , determination and sense of duty of the servicemen and women who had given their lives for their country . |
| 17 | Also , most appointees on public bodies are given their jobs for a set number of years , so it could be some while before changes filtered through . |
| 18 | All at once Jehan realised that Jehana had not yet given her reasons for consenting to betrothal with Alexei . |
| 19 | And Julie Goodyear — Coronation Street 's Bet Gilroy — has given her earrings for a separate celebrity sale in aid of Romanian children . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 21 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 22 | At the ruling prices fixed in a market determined by competition to meet this demand , the local authorities placed their contracts for estates to be built for slum clearance and relief of overcrowding . |
| 23 | Now the junior minister says she is pleased ‘ that the West Midlands County Council have accepted my proposals for a sensible and reasonable division of responsibilities . ’ |
| 24 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 25 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 26 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 27 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 28 | They 'd made their plans for escape . |
| 29 | She has not seen her children for two years . |
| 30 | Dinah noticed that the garden was tidy and well weeded , and reserved her opinion of the scholarly pair until she should have seen their methods for herself . |