Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 4 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 5 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 6 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 7 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 8 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 9 | And there you have , not a very good picture , but you can see this was th with the goods shed as per the last ordnance survey map . |
| 10 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 11 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 12 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 13 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 14 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 15 | Even then , it is looked after for a further two or three weeks . |
| 16 | I found that most of the animals in the circuses were looked after with a great deal of care and attention . |
| 17 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 18 | Communally maintained for the benefit of all the residents , the setting of the house remains unchanged with a certainty that it will be looked after on a continuing basis . |
| 19 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's looked after like a little princess . ’ |
| 21 | They need to explore , socialise , mix with interested adult company and be looked after in a warm and friendly environment . |
| 22 | There are countries where you might enter and be looked after in a hospitable way ; you do not feel that could happen in England . |
| 23 | During a trip with his amateur mountaineering father the rains came and young Simon spent four days being looked after in a Buddhist teaching monastery . |
| 24 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 25 | People in the street are asked to prepare for an influx of refugees who will be looked after in the local church hall . |
| 26 | It was a new sensation — or one she had forgotten — this feeling of being looked after by a strong , tender man . |
| 27 | The child of a globe-trotting executive mother is looked after by a female nanny and so the positive image of women in outward-looking powerful jobs is at once cancelled . |
| 28 | The arrangement was for Dorli and Lieserl to be looked after by a young Leeds couple , Theo and Tilly Hall , who had offered to take in refugee children . |
| 29 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 30 | On the visit I was looked after by a Danish girl called Merete . |