Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels . |
| 2 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 3 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 4 | When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north . |
| 5 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 6 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 7 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 8 | To verify this the remedy is stopped for a week or two . |
| 9 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 10 | Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines . |
| 11 | A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall . |
| 12 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 13 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 14 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 15 | Set in the prohibition era , it gleefully played with conventions , maximised Monroe 's diaphanous ( cf the scene where she attempts to arouse the supposedly impotent Curtis ) and coaxed a manic , uproarious turn from Lemmon , on the run from gangsters , disguised as a woman and pursued by a randy millionaire . |
| 16 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 17 | There the tip developed as a hand but all the more proximal structures were absent , and so there were no muscles proximal to the hand . |
| 18 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 19 | ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . ) |
| 20 | The Denby Dale Pie Trust was registered as a charity and ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ was on its way . |
| 21 | In addition to showing the name and address of every member and the date on which he was registered as a member or ceased to be a member , in the case of a company with a share capital the register must also state the number and class of shares ( or amount of stock ) held by him and the amount paid-up on each share . |
| 22 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 23 | Odd as this may sound , the idea that an association might be formed between a CS and the absence of some event is not without precedent in associative theorizing . |
| 24 | In short , where planning consent is given for a development or change of use , the question of nuisance will thereafter fall to be decided by reference to a neighbourhood with that development or use and not as it was previously . |
| 25 | Generally , if security is given for a debt and default is made in repayment of that debt , the secured creditor is entitled to appoint a receiver to safeguard his interest . |
| 26 | A typical compensation sum demanded by an agent for a half-acre corner of land given for a pond or tree planting might be £750 , taking the market value of grade 2 land in the Midlands in 1986 . |
| 27 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 28 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , because this tradition tended to ignore the problem of consumption , the main impact of this craft revival was to promote a conspicuous handmade image , explicitly separate from the products of mass consumption , and immediately recognized as a quality or luxury product which signified , and thereby helped reproduce , the new moneyed elites . |
| 30 | So the same instruction would , on one model , be executed directly by hard-ware and , on another , be recognized as an extracode and interpreted by a subroutine in the supervisor . |