Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 2 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 3 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |
| 4 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 5 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 6 | Quickly getting off the bus , he ran to where the plane had impacted and dragged out the injured pilot who was covered in oil moments before the plane caught fire . |
| 7 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 8 | In fact , the government ‘ took on ’ AT&T in the 1970s , and it was the Reagan administration of the 1980s — the villain of your piece — that secured real relief and brought on the phenomenal competition enjoyed today by refusing to accept the cosmetic settlement that had been negotiated by the Carter administration . |
| 9 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 10 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 11 | It expanded into Kirkcaldy , Dundee and Dunfermline ; extended into light commercial repairs , interior fabrication and painting of large commercials ; introduced shot blasting and low bake oven systems and brought in a comprehensive computer system . |
| 12 | When he spoke again , after one of the maids had cleared away the remains of the main course and brought in a magnificent charlotte russe , his manner had changed . |
| 13 | The administrator phoned the estate owner and brought in the National Guard who captured the leaders of the union from their homes one night . |
| 14 | AUSTRALIAN doctors have successfully frozen and thawed out a human embryo before planting it in a womb . |
| 15 | He asked her how things were going in her practice and fixed up a regular day for her to do vaccinations and inspect the other species . |
| 16 | And I daresay she thinks she 's succeeded — done me out of my rights and fixed up a snug home for herself for the rest of her days ! |
| 17 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 18 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 19 | Apis mellifera , if put on a horizontal honeycomb , dances just like Apis florica . |
| 20 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 21 | They helped her straighten the covers in the morning , and folded back the white sheet with celestial zest . |
| 22 | It is an industry which even in times of recession has kept most of its 70 000 employees and taken on a welcome and regular flow of new recruits . |
| 23 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 24 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 25 | ‘ As I was saying , I 'd pushed their occupancy rates up by 40 per cent by the time I left , and headed up a worldwide promotional campaign that got Mandarin more free press exposure than ever before . |
| 26 | Instead , he did another trick with the steering-wheel , making her lurch forward again as they turned off the road , between a pair of high wrought-iron gates , and headed up a tree-lined gravel driveway towards a fabulous , sprawling , red-roofed villa . |
| 27 | Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer , Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district . |
| 28 | How long will it be before the Student Loans Company will be able to administer mandatory grants as well as cut out the middle man ? |
| 29 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 30 | For the static case the line integral of the electric field disappears when taken over a closed path . |