Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 2 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 3 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 4 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 5 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 6 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 7 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 8 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 9 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 10 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 11 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 12 | We 've picked out a few of the very best places and entertainments for our trips programme to give you a taste of one of the most attractive areas in Spain . |
| 13 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 14 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 15 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 16 | We have carried out a few water changes , but our water is still dark green . |
| 17 | However , Cohen also carried out the same experiment using non-letter characters from a typewriter and obtained no consistent effect of set size in either visual half field . |
| 18 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 19 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 20 | Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds . |
| 21 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 22 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 24 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 25 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 26 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 27 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 28 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 29 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 30 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |