Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 2 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 3 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 4 | One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty . |
| 5 | And we 've educated them to go onto next day , and if we 're not performing we lose them . |
| 6 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 7 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 8 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 9 | Right , now we 've come I think to future events , erm , and we need to just try and list anything you know that 's coming up so , partly so that we 've actually got it down writing and we can look back on it . |
| 10 | Programmes may then be designed which build upon these notions . |
| 11 | The Department stated : ’ In anticipation of the proposed revision to the regulation , in some parts of the country ’ — the Minister has mentioned this — ’ campaigns were organised which resulted in non-specific applications for review on a scale which would have flooded the benefit system . ’ |
| 12 | seriously by the time yeah , you get a bus out of here , say it 's cancelled you leave at twelve o'clock . |
| 13 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 14 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 15 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 16 | Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security . |
| 17 | To her annoyance , although quite what she 'd expected him to do after that she could n't think , Tammuz grinned . |
| 18 | She had caught him flirting with another woman . |
| 19 | As a policy that might have succeeded it suffered from impossible political equivocation . |
| 20 | Erm , we have n't let anyone disagree with that either . |
| 21 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |
| 22 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
| 23 | ‘ I have never let myself go like that , ’ Alida said , ‘ never . |
| 24 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
| 25 | He had taught himself to sleep in brief snatches . |
| 26 | Finally , in section 4.4 , a simple model is developed which draws on all three approaches . |
| 27 | He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway . |
| 28 | I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think about this . |
| 29 | You might have made me come on this absurd chase , but what I think is my business . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |