Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is another way of saying the ring can not be seen , measured , touched or heard by picking up the bell and sniffing it , weighing it and subjecting it to chemical analysis . |
| 2 | ( c ) the reserve ( of the same amount because the share capital is cancelled ) created by the reduction of share capital being capitalised and applied in paying up new shares in the target which are issued to the bidder . |
| 3 | The T&L empire grew out of the merger in the 1920s of East End sugar refineries owned by Henry Tate and Abram Lyle , and expanded by fattening up the nation with calories . |
| 4 | However , the chordates were not quite fish , since they were without jaws or fins and fed by sucking in water and whatever nutrients it contained . |
| 5 | The amount breaks down as follows : * a criminal fine of $100 million , the highest ever levied against a polluter , set after Exxon agreed to plead guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; * a total of $900 million in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , and used for cleaning up operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade ; * if further damage from the slick emerges between the years 2002 and 2006 , Exxon will be liable for up to $100 million more . |
| 6 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 7 | It was a tremendous privilege , and compared to lining up with hundreds of others in order to receive some trivial award like a knighthood , the conferment of the CH stands out as something of special quality and considerable pleasure . |
| 8 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 9 | He desperately wanted to show Becky how much he appreciated all she had done , and settled for bouncing up and down on the corner of the bed |
| 10 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |
| 11 | This rule is stopping American and United from taking over their ailing rivals ' services . |
| 12 | We get paid and promoted for rushing round and solving problems wh that we 've created for ourselves . |
| 13 | This has the effect of tipping your centre of gravity enough to sidle round the beast and gain the undercut flake that runs tantalisingly up and left before fizzling out in the centre of the slab . |
| 14 | In both groups , treatment with oral 5-ASA ( 500 mg mesalazine thrice daily ) was started before discharge and maintained during follow up . |
| 15 | Business plans rarely , if ever , match events as they unfold , but the planning process may be refined and improved by carrying out a review when the results are known . |
| 16 | " Game to be sent to distant places " , wrote Meg Dods , long before the advent of the refrigerator " and potted without cutting up the birds will keep for a month . " |
| 17 | We went back to college for lunch and changed before heading off again . |
| 18 | The fifteenth activist , the only woman in the unit , 20 year old Jasmina Pandy was acquitted and released after spending over a year and a half in police detention . |
| 19 | The imposition of royal control and of Protestant doctrines in Ireland began a prolonged and heavy drain upon the royal purse , while in 1549 troops had to be found and paid for putting down risings in East Anglia , the South-West , the Midlands , and the South . |