Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people . |
| 2 | This is all part of nature 's balance , of course , as these small animals get eaten by fish . |
| 3 | Usually they get taken from 100ft up , but the one I have is a little different . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've heard of people being accident prone , ’ Harris observed after a while , ‘ but you seem to he murder prone , Melissa . ’ |
| 5 | As we 've heard from people in this programme tonight , most of them start when they 're children or young adolescents |
| 6 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 7 | K. R. I 've moved on people sleeping rough — perhaps take him a hundred yards from the shop wherever he was — ‘ On your way . |
| 8 | You 've got to people tend to forget that erm things you find easy before you knew how to do them you found them quite hard |
| 9 | It 's in all the books I 've got at home.in As he stormed out of the shop , he delivered a parting shot over his shoulder . |
| 10 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 11 | You 've talked to people ? ’ |
| 12 | Because I 've , I 've spoken to staff who , who thought it was awful but when chatted to them about it |
| 13 | If we go back to that first , second slide , if you 're still alive in thirty years time , you may actually want the money that you 've gifted to people ten years ago , and erm that 's the problem you 've got . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've read about people giving MPs expensive lunches , ’ he said , with interest . |
| 15 | It could have been exam pressure we 've read about people like that at Oxford University . |
| 16 | okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now . |
| 17 | Refrigeration is another large expense , but we have economised by 20% — and that 's enough power to run all the household fridges in Wolverhampton . |
| 18 | The shares plunged 18p to 266p on news that profits have fallen to £91m from £93.7m . |
| 19 | Total outstanding loans have fallen from $15.8 billion to $14 billion . |
| 20 | Profits have fallen from £322m for 1990 as the company , which operates textile , cleaning , security , distribution , plant , personnel , catering , joinery and facilities management businesses , rebuilds . |
| 21 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 22 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 23 | Reporting interim pre-tax profits which have fallen from £1.82 million to just over £1 million for the six months to 31 December , the chairman , Trevor Spencer , said the many favourable factors now relating to the housing market must contribute to buyers ' confidence . |
| 24 | The A shares , which have fallen from 670p since the interims in September , lost 8 yesterday to 615p . |
| 25 | Tea prices in London have fallen by 30% from a three-year peak in January . |
| 26 | Real wages in Australia have fallen by 5% over the past seven years ; in Britain they have risen by almost 20% . |
| 27 | Some fear this may have harmed the LME 's reputation , and could drive prices , which have fallen by 50% in two years , still lower . |
| 28 | According to a study commissioned by the owners , the profits of major-league clubs have fallen by 54% since 1989 . |
| 29 | The island 's isolation and woodsy beauty have made it wildly popular in the past few years ; prices for many single homes have jumped above $300,000 . |
| 30 | Most of them are usually based on inaccurate information that we have gathered about people . |