Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague . |
| 2 | The Building News , The Gentleman 's Magazine and The Ecclesiologist all reprinted it in full . |
| 3 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 4 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |
| 5 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 6 | ‘ ALMIGHTY Allah has vindicated us , ’ Nawaz Sharif told the crowds waiting outside Pakistan 's Supreme Court on May 26th : the court had just reinstated him as prime minister . |
| 7 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 8 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 9 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 10 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 11 | He stabled the horses near those allotments where I 've just told you about ny father had allotments . |
| 12 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 13 | Several readers have already contacted me regarding foul play and the role of the touch-judge . |
| 14 | A few have already introduced them as analytical tools in their product-development laboratories . |
| 15 | I 've just bathed her in cold water to get the temperature down cos she 's . |
| 16 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 17 | Hopefully we have not left it to late . |
| 18 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 19 | He was alone at the centre of driving lines of grey and wet , and only a will that had already taken him across wide seas and a wider continent drove him forward . |
| 20 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 21 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 22 | We 've already cleared you into Russian airspace . |
| 23 | I have since used it with great success at children 's parties . |
| 24 | For the English kings , on the other hand , war was an attempt to assert historic and feudal rights to Aquitaine , Normandy , and other parts of France , as well as their legal claim to the French crown , which had been unjustly denied them by successive French kings . |
| 25 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 26 | Wirral Social Services Department temporarily placed her with foster parents and a case conference will take place this morning . |
| 27 | The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons . |
| 28 | All understanding is guided by the Holy Spirit , whose manifold activity is emphasized ( whereas the first draft had practically restricted it to biblical inspiration ) . |
| 29 | Kite had to win in New Orleans to be invited but could only manage joint 12th with Severiano Ballesteros , whose last round of 69 has also put him in good heart . |
| 30 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |