Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 2 | It may have been designed to give you lot a rest but some of us readers needed a break too . |
| 3 | Select from today 's menu and enjoy the exercises which are specially designed to stretch your body a little further each day , giving it increased suppleness and strength . |
| 4 | The town has been carefully designed to offer its visitors every amenity . |
| 5 | Having received no reply from Wrexham to my offer of taking over as manager , I have decided to set my sights a little lower , hence my chat with Stan . |
| 6 | Many accept that consumer confidence is good for business and have sought to give their members an advantage over competitors by drawing up a series of consumer protection measures , such as codes of practice , arbitration procedures and bonding schemes . |
| 7 | At home we have an impressive library of books , carefully selected to give our children the widest possible view of life : black families , single fathers , working mothers , girls rescuing the western world single-handed and boys moping in corners because they long for a doll . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 9 | In this issue you can read about Auvers-sur-l'Oise where many of the Impressionists lived and painted , which has decided to give its tourists the hyperreal experience of walking through ‘ Dejeuner sur l'herbe ’ and travelling in the padded compartments of a nineteenth-century train with Monet landscapes outside . |
| 10 | Having decided to make your home a safe place , where do you go for the right products and service ? |
| 11 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 12 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 13 | He had promised to give His spokesman the words to speak , and the chapter in front of us is a part of God 's message to Israel through Jeremiah . |
| 14 | The presence of the Seoul 100 metres silver medallist might have attracted a few more through the turnstiles had the Scottish AAA not agreed to keep his entry a secret at the request of the athlete himself , a fact which inevitably leaked out leaving the promoters somewhat embarrassed . |
| 15 | ‘ Rosemary 's so uptight about anyone , in particular family , knowing about us that I 've had to keep her name a closely guarded secret . |
| 16 | You 've obviously got to jog our memories a little further cos none of us can remember it . |
| 17 | He had promised to cook his hostess a speciality of his — beef fondue . |
| 18 | " We want to look our very best — which should n't be a real problem as we 're so gorgeous — but we 've just had to change our clothes a couple of times . |
| 19 | Morrison was host to such Victorian worthies as Ruskin , the great art critic , and Charles Kingsley , who is said to have been inspired to write his book The Water Babies by his visits to the Dales ( Vendale being based on Littondale ) and who once told somebody that the black marks on the face of Malham Cove were made by " the fingers of little chimney boys " . |
| 20 | ANNE is set to lose her £228,000 a year , EDWARD his £96,000 and ANDREW will have his £249,000 halved . |
| 21 | Mr McWhirter 's methods meant that some — any — excuse had to be found to interrupt his recital every ten minutes or so . |
| 22 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 23 | One is actually led to wonder what effect a knowledge of the Lorenz system , at an earlier stage , would have had on Smale 's development of these important ideas . |
| 24 | NATIONAL park visitors are being asked to give their cars a rest on Sundays this summer . |
| 25 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 26 | He must have started writing his book a long time ago . |
| 27 | The couple , who have two children — Charlie , three , and nine-month-old Freddie — had tried to keep their troubles a secret . |
| 28 | The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level . |
| 29 | She then discovered her engineer husband had run up thousands of pounds in debts and had tried to end his life a month before . |
| 30 | Two friends of hers had planned to give their daughter a surprise trip to Venice as an eighteenth-birthday present . |