Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [det] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Many farmers whose English was , on the whole , very limited , nevertheless filled in all the inevitable forms from the Ministry of Agriculture and Milk Marketing Board in English .
2 The librarian selected the remaining titles and filled in all the order forms .
3 Once you have filled in all the details , the button Start Search puts your search into action .
4 He 's filled in all the things .
5 He 's filled in all the things .
6 His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor .
7 I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves .
8 Someone had already picked up all the spilled groceries with the exception of a crushed box of crackers .
9 In effect , country has picked up all the old paraphernalia of the pop world : slick videos , stage shows , merchandising , fanzines and so on .
10 erm and , and the market is being badly hit as a result of this , now we 've a specialist in a certain type of business that leaves the market free for another syndicate and they 've now picked up all the juicy business
11 ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’
12 He had keyed up all the radar stations and they would be alerted the moment anything significant was plotted .
13 Graeme Scott had sorted out all the jigs much earlier in the year .
14 I had sorted out all the details I needed in the Yemen , such as colour sketches , colour matches and photographic records of dress materials and patterns , so consequently had an idea of what I was putting together .
15 ‘ I 've sorted out all the stuff from our period , ’ he said .
16 So it will be some time before they 've sorted out all the flowers and shrubs destined for a new home .
17 His assassins were dead , Philip would not be pleased by that ; the dwarfs had carried out many an assassination on behalf of the French King and their skills and expertise would be solely missed .
18 For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom .
19 Only the devil 's disciples could have carried out such a wanton massacre , and where the devil is abroad the innocent suffer .
20 ‘ Only the devil 's disciples could have carried out such a wanton massacre , and where the devil is abroad the innocent suffer .
21 We could , I suppose , have carried out such an experiment without the drastic consequences the Lieutenant has suggested .
22 And informed Ulster security sources say there is no evidence that the fatal shots have been fired by a specially trained marksman or mercenary brought in by the IRA or that only one or two men has carried out all the attacks .
23 If it were n't for the fact that her grandmother had helped her grandfather form the original company of Sarah Chester Fabrics , that it was her grandmother 's designs combined with her grandfather 's technical know-how that had started the whole thing off , she 'd have written off all the Chester males as hopeless chauvinists .
24 Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic .
25 ‘ The producer had written out all the parts …
26 Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional .
27 We had a short stop for refreshment , got out the pegs and the skyhook and secured an open krab onto the end of a three foot cheating stick ( which we had carefully hauled up all the way from the woods ) .
28 Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps .
29 He 'd soaked up all the motherfucking atmosphere he wanted , thank you very much .
30 I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses .
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