Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 2 | The crew were kept occupied completing the many jobs that should have been finished before putting out . |
| 3 | A third approach was considered to exhibit the least disadvantages . |
| 4 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 5 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out . |
| 6 | The company also said that it will continue with its application to the Department of Trade and Industry to operate a ‘ personal communications network ’ , which is expected to present the same opportunities in the next decade as cellular mobile radio is doing in this . |
| 7 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 8 | He put a couple of lamb chops under the grill , made a green salad and prepared to enjoy a few hours of solitude before the intrusion of Rickards and his preoccupations . |
| 9 | We seemed destined to replay the same parts in an old story . |
| 10 | One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’ |
| 11 | Furthermore , if both LIFESPANs are instructed to use the same units simultaneously , they will compete for access to those units ( on a first-come first-served basis ) . |
| 12 | The harvest I had seen gathered a few kilometres away was back on the stalk . |
| 13 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
| 14 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 15 | So , as I enjoy the opportunity to create a modest tremor in the bourgeois breast myself , I have decided to present a few recipes that might be described as ‘ frighteners ’ : recipes that are totally delicious but fringed with menace . |
| 16 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 17 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 18 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 19 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 20 | Recruitment advertisements on behalf of one licensed dealer or another used to appear every few weeks in London or the national press . |
| 21 | My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky . |
| 22 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 23 | You 've got to give the same numbers |
| 24 | Anyway , I 'll I 'll put in the note anyway , because that 's the , thank you because I , I feel I 've got to get a few prices to find out |
| 25 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 26 | The flier had been briefed to say a few things like a parrot , but had no deeper understanding of war , or peace , or politics than that bird . |
| 27 | Many fonts supplied have the same names as famous typographic faces but unless the typographer 's width tables have been provided for the target device all sorts of trouble can occur . |
| 28 | But she 's , she 's got to relinquish a few things herself . |
| 29 | As Venus moves into your sign , the pride you have taken in your appearance is bound to turn a few heads . |
| 30 | They were bound to ask a few questions ! |