Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 2 | I think both principles remain given this system . |
| 3 | In America , companies that launch underwritten secondary issues see their share price fall further than those which choose book-building , reckons Morgan Stanley ( though firms that seek underwriting may be in worse shape anyway ) . |
| 4 | A multi-party conference , which the government and the ANC want convened next month , will determine whether 5 per cent of the vote or 10 per cent is necessary for representation . |
| 5 | The tests we report followed these operations by 3–7 months ( P.P. ) and 8–10 months ( L.A.H. ) . |
| 6 | A Merseyside based analysist said last night : ‘ Sadly they are still in a mess , they badly need to reduce debts of approaching £1bn even though we expect to see a improvement in profitability this year . ’ |
| 7 | In the third term , students undertake supervised individual project work leading to extended essays on any two of the six course components . |
| 8 | The party you support created such chaos that unemployment rose by a hundred and thirty one percent . |
| 9 | Excavations at the Late Hallstatt cemetery of Donja Dolina on the Save revealed seven cowrie shell beads on a necklace made up of hundreds of amber beads and some made of coloured glass . |
| 10 | A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman . |
| 11 | All observers seem agreed that demerger is sensible in principle . |
| 12 | I know we team briefed last time round but su |
| 13 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 14 | they wanted to er you know given these guidelines I 'd think right let's , as you were saying , just go for it and |
| 15 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 16 | And some people are very unfortunate and get caught first time . |
| 17 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 18 | It 's not many people you get fined three quid for drinking a cup of coffee |
| 19 | Well they 're supposed to be opening on Sundays but did n't Texas and all those get fined last year ? |
| 20 | Erm , we get fed all sorts of information from various levels in and rumours from outside , not just the milkman , you know |
| 21 | They get collected most days . |
| 22 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 23 | Over the years you get called all kinds of things , but a few weeks ago I reached new heights . |
| 24 | well we just do this , people get asked this drive as responsible and driving that children under fourteen are sitting |
| 25 | or I 've you know run two words in together or something . |
| 26 | And in the typical sort of way that lawyers get knocked these days erm we get lumped in with other people and the mud flies . |
| 27 | ‘ Go inside and get dressed this minute ! |
| 28 | And er they have a go , er even day and night , and I do n't know anywhere in the country that you can get that sort of service twenty four hours a day , three hundred and sixty five days a year from people who get paid that sort of money , it 's , I think it 's , it 's a marvellous er set-up it really is . |
| 29 | you get paid next week . |
| 30 | erm , I wished I did mum I tell ya , get paid next week and it 's Easter |