Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 2 | Erm have you ever seen a moped with a plate on it ? |
| 3 | Connery ( nee Bond ) lives in Marbella and has made a commercial for Japanese whisky . |
| 4 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 5 | He really has got a right to be angry . |
| 6 | I 've got a tied up cat . |
| 7 | I 've got a tied up cat here . |
| 8 | but he 's got a long inside leg measurement , he says yes I 've got a very long inside measur leg measurement , I 'm thirty one inside leg and I thought |
| 9 | It looks as if over there stuck on the wall they 've got a rechargeable for hoover for taking crumbs off the tables . |
| 10 | you know , well they 've done brilliantly but the market we 've b between us we 've got a good for the market . |
| 11 | Got a key for Stu . |
| 12 | She 's got a big round table . |
| 13 | out and never said ta ta to anyone , I mean I ran over and I said to mum he 's got a funny on , what do you think ? |
| 14 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 15 | According to Fielding , Lorne had n't had a hard-on for thirty-five years . |
| 16 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 17 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 18 | ‘ Again I have received a demarned in respect of my Farther … |
| 19 | THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews . |
| 20 | MORRISSEY 's ticket swap operation , established to compensate fans who bought tickets for Morrissey 's cancelled appearances at Glastonbury and Finsbury Park , has been dubbed a rip-off by outraged fans . |
| 21 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 22 | Moreover , Charles Darwin 's revelations about out bestial beginnings had dealt a severe to Victorian man 's self-image . |
| 23 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 24 | as if I 'd hired a familiar for the crime . |
| 25 | Benny had smiled at her but again it had seemed a little as if it were expected . |
| 26 | He had gained a half-Blue for athletics at Cambridge , was a member of the MCC and played tennis regularly at Hurlingham until stricken by illness . |
| 27 | Having a toddler thrown a wobbly in public is perhaps one of parenting 's most embarrassing episodes . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the I R A have admitted a serious of attacks on so-called soft targets in Britain , including yesterday 's shooting of an army sergeant outside a careers office in north London . |
| 29 | — Mr. Gould has left a blank for this name to be put in , in one of his M.S. pages . |
| 30 | He 's lost a lost of weight since I last saw him , being interviewed by Michael Aspel a few months before . |