Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 2 | At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business . |
| 3 | She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world . |
| 4 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
| 5 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 6 | UB 's shares only nudged up 3p to 352p . |
| 7 | Never mind the crater in the window , never mind the tyres with several thousand miles scraped off their lives , never mind some brand new little glitch that had better be sorted out a.s.a.p. in the cab 's suspension . |
| 8 | MICHAEL Caine 's supersmart London caff , Langan 's Brasserie , recently shelled out £2,000 towards two smart black cast-iron litter bins . |
| 9 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 10 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 11 | Barclays Bank has written off £240m of debt attributable to the property company Imry ; it is one of the largest individual debt write-offs in the UK . |
| 12 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 13 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 14 | They are now sixth with supporters angered by the run of poor results particularly as Rovers have lashed out £5.4m on a make-or-break spending spree . |
| 15 | Researchers in Britain have drawn up data on climate change which warns of massive disruption to agriculture and loss of vital eco-systems in China . |
| 16 | Grumman finally coughed up $40m in 1988 in settlement of the legal claims against it . |
| 17 | Plant and machinery : Leasing was hauled up 12% to £3bn |
| 18 | ‘ Prophets ’ and ‘ Issue ’ fell comfortably into a well thought out series of paintings . |
| 19 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 20 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 21 | Courtaulds has called up £11million from its pension fund surplus to fill a large part of the interim profit hole from the South African pulp sale . |
| 22 | Courtaulds has called up £11million from its pension fund surplus to fill a large part of the interim profit hole from the South African pulp sale . |
| 23 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 24 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 25 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 26 | Pamela Vandyke Price 's Tutored Wine Tasting , arranged by Miranda Villiers and her colleagues in teh London Regional Group , brought in £300 for the Endowment Appeal and changed many people 's views on sparkling wines . |
| 27 | Every £1 in extra revenue brought in 93p at the bottom line , said the board , with the new 7 per cent Government levy on sales the only deduction . |
| 28 | The new team , brought in by the company 's largest investor , has laid off 30% of Computone 's staff and has already trimmed between $3m and $4m off the company 's overhead . |
| 29 | But the shares yesterday were marked up 10p to 136p after Mr Dwyer said he was hopeful 1993 would prove to be ‘ a springboard for recovery ’ . |
| 30 | Although M&S may still come in second , the City believes it is set for strong future growth and the shares were marked up 6p to 355p . |