Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 2 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 3 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 4 | Such a claim can of course be brought in the same action by which the recognition of the automatic hiring and the awarding of the relevant salary is sought . |
| 5 | Funds can be switched on the same day from one currency to another by use of a personal identification number ( PIN ) , free of charge save for the foreign exchange commission of 0.1% , minimum £5 , maximum £20 . |
| 6 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 7 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 8 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 9 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 10 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 11 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 12 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 13 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 14 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 15 | Pipkin was stretched out a little way away . |
| 16 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 17 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 18 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 19 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 20 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 21 | Next day , as Ginger was ridden down the same road , he saw that the bins were still there . |