Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 2 | Dogs began to bark , triggering a rallying cry , a droning chorus broken occasionally by one or other 's high-pitched howling . |
| 3 | After prosecutors presented evidence that he had money stashed away in overseas accounts , it was ruled that Mr Dixon must stay in jail until the judge sentences him in February . |
| 4 | And I would again ask to have money given specifically for this you know , for this purpose . |
| 5 | In most species of birds , a male reared apart from other singing males will not develop a proper song at all ; this is not true of simple bird sounds , such as the cock crow , but no ‘ song birds ’ are known to be able to develop their elaborate songs in isolation . |
| 6 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 7 | It is the excuse given now for all hunting , but the misuse of a concept of a practice like that proves nothing about whether it is itself legitimate . |
| 8 | Joint liability is the liability undertaken together by two or more vendors . |
| 9 | Typography within a dictionary indicates the function carried out by particular parts of the text . |
| 10 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 11 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 12 | In the following year , indeed , Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne and in May 1431 , after what was a political trial carried out under ecclesiastical rules , she was condemned and burned at Rouen . |
| 13 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 14 | Just got a bit carried away with all the excitement of storming the building and everything . |
| 15 | Knowledge is embodied if the functions in virtue of which the knowledge is attributed to the organism are at base carried out by bodily ( physiological ) mechanisms ; knowledge is built in if its embodiment is determined genetically rather than experientially . |
| 16 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 17 | a vote given solely to one candidate at an election when the voter has the right to split his vote between two or more candidates ( hence the phrase ‘ to plump for ’ ) . |
| 18 | This was liberally interspersed with launch picnics , swimming , the services of a chef flown specially from one of the malais ' two five-star hotels back home , and ‘ ethnic entertainments ’ . |
| 19 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 20 | The band contributed an acoustic version of ‘ Give My Love To Kevin ’ to a compilation tape given away with Underground magazine . |
| 21 | Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us . |
| 22 | In studies of this kind there was evidence of a shift in the attitude to physical environment as environmental perception had a significant influence on the research undertaken by on physical geographers . |
| 23 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 25 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |
| 26 | With a length of 116 metres , a width of 18 metres and a depth of 6.9 metres over the sill , it enabled the larger steamers now frequenting the port to have repairs and maintenance carried out in modern facilities . |
| 27 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 28 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 29 | On a more positive note , often the plundering carried out in good synthetic studies can lead , as here , to an enrichment of material presented to the reader . |
| 30 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |