Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It has pulled back several miles . |
| 32 | Extensive use of agricultural chemicals has driven out many animal and plant species . |
| 33 | But a winter of hard work , tuning and rebuilding the engine , has rounded up more speed and Ian knows he can stay with the very best . |
| 34 | It was also revealed that a baby died after being delivered in the birthing pool at the Churchill John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , although the hospital has ruled out any connection between the death and the method of birth . |
| 35 | He has ruled out any keel or mast changes in the four days left before the final trials but hopes he can find more speed by using new sails . |
| 36 | The Conservative Party Chairman , Norman Fowler , has ruled out any cabinet reshuffle following last week 's local elections results . |
| 37 | Its decline explains why the wholesale price of mistletoe has gone up this year by as much as £15 a hundredweight at England 's largest market — Tenbury Wells in Herefordshire . |
| 38 | No-one has gone out this way . ’ |
| 39 | Martin Hardwidge , the General Secretary , left in April and Stuart Waddington has taken on that role . |
| 40 | Visa records do not yet appear to have long-term reusable value , whereas 20th Century-Fox 's Movietone film has taken on such value . |
| 41 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 42 | As a result , he has taken on more staff in the region . |
| 43 | The secretary , who also organizes the church flower rota , has just resigned in a huff , because she says the Sunday school has taken over some shelves in the vestry flower-vase cupboard without asking , so I have to take the minutes . ’ |
| 44 | The US Government is also making available grants of $2.8 million for site selection and characterisation , but so far no Native American nation has taken up that offer . |
| 45 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 46 | AN ESSEX health promotion unit has lined up several schemes to encourage smokers to take their final puff on national No Smoking Day on March 10 . |
| 47 | For instance , a sales pitch claiming that a major discovery has been made in the North Sea sounds suspect to the investor who has lost out several times in the past . |
| 48 | Amnesia has blotted out all memory of the companies that prospered after issuing junk bonds . |
| 49 | Though Eridania Béghin-Say , Ferruzzi 's agribusiness arm , and Edison , its power company , are doing well , new investment may have to wait until Carlo Sama , Mr Gardini 's successor , has paid off some debt . |
| 50 | The barrier has held back both sides . |
| 51 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 52 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 53 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 54 | Chris 'd pointed out this addict that hung around the theatre café : he stank like mouldy meat and his skin was terrible , so spotty it was almost rotting away . |
| 55 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 56 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 57 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 58 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 59 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 60 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |