Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One small hand , the nails surrounded by gnawed raw flesh , clutched a wad of tissue paper against her seeping eye . |
| 2 | There 's a delicious mousse of melted chocolate bars , a chocolate log made with bought Swiss rolls , soaked in Cointreau with raisins , and a speedy , frozen alternative to the traditional pud using a carton of fresh custard . |
| 3 | The courtly side of Ruritania which George Birmingham happily played with gave another writer in the 1920s , Dornford Yates , a way to embellish thrillers which were basically unoriginal . |
| 4 | The public relations branch of the company they worked for had several fits when they discovered an entry in the city directory that read Maxted , Sally — Dressmaker . |
| 5 | A fair proportion of the cells they recorded from gave rhythmic bursts of high-frequency firing , at the rate of some 4–12 per second , more or less irrespective of what the animal was doing ; this rhythmic activity is interesting because it corresponds with the so-called theta rhythm of the EEG , and may be an aspect of the attentional processes necessary for the learning or remembering of particular activities . |
| 6 | If leakage carries on increasing , we 'd have to built more reservoirs . |
| 7 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 8 | Education , too , can be directed to encouraged certain ideals . |
| 9 | The 12 dealers we spoke to had 54 orders between them . |
| 10 | We think it was going to be the seventh and the eighth and the ninth , and they 've told Newcastle City it 's the ninth , but she was meant to confirmed last Wednesday , and she 's still not . |
| 11 | so I says it 's going , now as far as the , er , what they call it that fella that come to did that job |