Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the economic situation has now somewhat improved , it has affected both government expenditure and living standards over the entire decade . |
| 2 | And this after the Treaury has spent roughly $3bn defending sterling in the last 10 days , probably to no avail . |
| 3 | PC Pick is one of the organisers of the Newcastle Police Aid to Romanian Children charity , which has delivered about £4m worth of supplies to the troubled country in the past two years . |
| 4 | Anecdotal evidence , however , suggests that the follow-through has been patchy , and very few retailers are assuming anything other than that the consumer has put away cheque book and credit cards and is unlikely to venture forth until confidence begins to build again . |
| 5 | West Germany has put forward Reimar Lust . |
| 6 | Fishing tackle manufacturers Daiwa Sports Ltd has donated around £10,000 worth of freshwater fish to the Broughton Hall Angling Club , West Derby just 12 months after all their fish were wiped out in a oil spill . |
| 7 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 8 | Having beaten both West Coast and Su Ragazzi this season , Jets are well capable of winning the cup for the first time , especially as they possess two of the most talented players in Scotland in Geoff Marshall and captain John Gaughan . |
| 9 | If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less . |
| 10 | And something has to be done about the over-breeding of pedigree dogs : I 've met Home Office Minister Angela Rumbold to discuss important changes I would like to see made to The Dog Breeding Act . ’ |
| 11 | So that 's another word you 've got there lock sock shock |
| 12 | Erm , but I think we 've got , we 've got erm Cowan Bridge in the early part of Lowood and I think we 've got really Roe Head School at the end Lowood , as it were . |
| 13 | The boys started up dumper trucks , a J C B and a caterpillar tractor at the site , and in just one hour they had caused nearly £50,000 worth of damage . |
| 14 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 15 | Alas that the RIBA 's garden design book had taken away garden architecture , for that encapsulates so much characteristic of the Regency . |
| 16 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 17 | If you have received Home Responsibilities Protection ( HRP ) . |
| 18 | My parents have lost about £7,000 worth of things , ’ said Mrs Berry . |