Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 3 | When Mortimer had assigned everyone positions for the operation — Ace , Benny and Petion to remain with him — he checked his watch . |
| 4 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 5 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 6 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 7 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 8 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 9 | I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job . |
| 10 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 11 | Sometimes ammonium hydroxide is added which functions as a mild alkali . |
| 12 | After a reeve has mated she departs from the lek to lay her eggs and rears her young by herself . |
| 13 | I would n't have let you go without a fight , though , even if the hell had driven you to it . |
| 14 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 15 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 16 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 17 | She has also sketched herself slumped on the floor , with her mother brandishing a syringe and a key . |
| 18 | The body of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , was found on Saturday by her boyfriend , Peter Hook , 25 , after he had reported her missing to the police . |
| 19 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 20 | September 10th was the Saturday following Heather 's visit to Oxford and thus just when Harry would have expected her to proceed to the Skein of Geese . |
| 21 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 22 | He had expected everybody to abide by the rules he had applied to his own life . |
| 23 | She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here . |
| 24 | Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance . |
| 25 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 26 | John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee . |
| 27 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 28 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 29 | The next day Julia woke with all the trivial but uncomfortable symptoms of a developing cold , and she wondered whether she had caught it dawdling by the edge of the icy lagoon . |
| 30 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |