Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 2 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 3 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |
| 4 | He was soon dismissed for what an industrial tribunal described as ‘ indulging in behaviour short of intercourse ’ with the executive 's wife . |
| 5 | During election night itself , we were reminded of what a splendid performer Robin Day is . |
| 6 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 7 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 8 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 9 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 11 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 12 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 13 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 14 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 15 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 16 | A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes 's ideas could find no place . |
| 17 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 18 | Certainly however ‘ an incremental menu of services ’ will be provided to principal members as committed to its the 1994 fiscal funding . |
| 19 | Certainly however ‘ an incremental menu of services ’ will be provided to principal members as committed to its the 1994 fiscal funding . |
| 20 | For this reason , of the patient , turning off the machine has attracted to itself an enormous significance , and has already spawned its own folklore . |
| 21 | ‘ The bankruptcy of a debtor … shall be deemed to have relation back to , and to commence at , the time of the act of bankruptcy being committed on which a receiving order is made against him … |
| 22 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 23 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 24 | Resigned to whatever the next game would be , she followed him , fighting her instinctive trust of the man whose face she had n't yet seen . |
| 25 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 26 | Around the gate and the two fire-engines parked by it a little knot of spectators was gathering , increasing by the minute , kept at a distance by two superbly imperturbable members of the Lancashire County force . |
| 27 | In daft Magic Roundabout T-shirt and with enough of that stubborn hair to necessitate a hand pushed through it every two seconds , Paul Merton is far from the detached misery he portrays on the box . |
| 28 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 29 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 30 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |