Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only imagine someone has jumped out on her and dragged her away for some reason . |
| 4 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 5 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 6 | Theatre for Oxford has developed out of his theatre tours abroad , for which he has directed The Importance of Being Ernest , in which he also plays Dr Chasuble , The Glass Menagerie , The Promise , Shaw 's Village Wooing , Arthur Miller 's Elegy for a Lady and Pinter 's The Caretaker . |
| 7 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 8 | Marketing has developed out of sales . |
| 9 | The project has developed out of previous research funded by the ESRC on decision making processes in transport operations . |
| 10 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 11 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 12 | The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter . |
| 13 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 14 | An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc . |
| 15 | First tonight , a bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow this week — despite calls for him to be banned following the weekend atrocity in Belfast . |
| 16 | A bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow despite calls for him to be banned , following Saturday 's massacre in Belfast . |
| 17 | A ROW has broken out over plans to move a home for problem children to Chester 's biggest council estate . |
| 18 | A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians . |
| 19 | But since then a major row has broken out over Russian supplies to Ukraine . |
| 20 | A POLITICAL row has broken out over Chancellor Norman Lamont 's rejection of demands that the Royal Family should pay income tax . |
| 21 | The scenario for the training exercise ; a fire has broken out under a container carrying spent nuclear fuel by rail from Oldbury power station to Sellafield for reprocessing . |
| 22 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 23 | War has broken out between taxi drivers and a bus company over a taxi rank . |
| 24 | Welcome back : A blood feud has broken out between producers of one of our oldest breeds of cattle . |
| 25 | A ROW has broken out between private and council residents over plans for a traffic calming scheme . |
| 26 | A ROW has broken out between two Darlington General Election candidates over the number of under-fives in nurseries . |
| 27 | The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world . |
| 28 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 29 | A row has broken out among Darlington councillors over plans to build a private hospital in Lingfield Way on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate . |
| 30 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |