Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF HISTORY is anything to go by , the legal action being brought in Britain by 3,000 patients against Wyeth ( a subsidiary of American Home Products ) and Switzerland 's Hoffmann-La Roche will either be dismissed or settled out of court for a pittance . |
| 2 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 3 | we were close when I was in Washington , and whichever way you slice it he wo n't want my brother being buggered or beaten up in a New York jail . ’ |
| 4 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 5 | The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers . |
| 6 | What a relief for Great Britain that Gregory has agreed to tour and gone back on his original decision to retire from the international scene . |
| 7 | The Kawasaki cut through to St Paul 's as I 'd expected and accelerated up towards Holborn . |
| 8 | Senior backbencher Sir Marcus Fox said : ‘ There is a feeling he has been hounded and forced out of office . ’ |
| 9 | The ‘ traditional ’ settlement pattern in the area is varied and developed out of topographical constraint , patterns of land tenure and the exigencies of agriculture . |
| 10 | At last , when all the stalls were full , Lady Amelia gestured to the cantor not to begin the usual psalms and caused a stir when she herself rose and swept up to the lectern . |
| 11 | The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber , their eyes cast down . |
| 12 | Alternatively they can be lifted and clamped up to mid-December , and fed to cattle and sheep until the end of February . |
| 13 | Attacked and driven out by men , Giant Wolves have allied with Goblin tribes . |
| 14 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 15 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 16 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 17 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 18 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 19 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 20 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 21 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |
| 22 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 23 | — a fear then forgotten but driven down into the subconscious ? |
| 24 | In each stage there is a change in the balance of innovation in product and process as set out in Table 7.1 . |
| 25 | In each stage there is a change in the balance of innovation in product and process as set out in Table 7.1 . |
| 26 | This sentence structure then develops as set out in Fig 3. 1 . |
| 27 | We could provide no hardware for these operations , so that they must be programmed when required out of the basic steps of addition , subtraction , and shifting . |
| 28 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
| 29 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 30 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |