Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 2 | When he had finished reading he carefully folded it and placed it on top of the blotter . |
| 3 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 4 | Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential . |
| 5 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 6 | Thus it bought the van from the trader and transferred it on hire purchase to the customer . |
| 7 | We are all impressed by the Gurkhas , and anyone who has visited Nepal and seen them in operation is even more impressed . |
| 8 | This was the station where the fire had been , she had read about it and seen it on television . |
| 9 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 10 | I had chosen and wrapped them with care . |
| 11 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |
| 12 | He had practised his strange illusionisms on them , and sworn them to secrecy . |
| 13 | As you will know Councillor Wiper and Councillor Gornall have now replaced the seat and fixed it in position on Snowhill . |
| 14 | and packaged it in paper — candy-striped . |
| 15 | South Clwyd Coroner John Hughes said he had been impressed by the courage of the other crew members of the Warrior and medics who had pulled L Cpl Edwards from the vehicle , tried to resuscitate him and taken him to hospital . |
| 16 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 17 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 18 | And then took er took the k took the tr the erm took the the saddle off and the lathe and and fitted it on top and then got special tools from Clarence Dock at Liverpool power station that I asked for , tools . |
| 19 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 20 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |
| 21 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 22 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |