Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 2 | treated them as easy meat |
| 3 | While the Formalists had treated them as objective features inherent in literature itself , Richards 's emphasis was on the reader 's response to literature and on the evaluation of this response . |
| 4 | No you 're entitled to that you know that 's the If you have actually nominated somebody and that nomination has been accepted by the Teachers ' Pensions Agency . |
| 5 | In September 1991 it had effectively dissolved itself when new union structures were created after the failed coup [ see p. 38415 ] . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it can be used to decompose overall proportions , as shown in the previous section , and it can be decomposed itself when other variables are brought into the picture . |
| 7 | During the campaign , Rajiv deliberately spurned the tight security which had surrounded him as Prime Minister and consciously adopted a more intimate style of canvassing . |
| 8 | Her father , Stefano , who had listed himself as joint coach , is now once more directing her training on court , while Laurie Schuett , a trainer from the Palm Beach Sports Institute , Florida , has been drafted in to work on her fitness . |
| 9 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 10 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 11 | Even McPhee , the Assistant Commandant , had noticed it and that morning he had come along to see Owen . |
| 12 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 13 | One of the guerrillas invites him to drink wine , and in no time he is completely drunk , and has told them that some lorries loaded with ammunition are coming up the road , to help in the campaign to wipe out the guerrillas . |
| 14 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 15 | He had also told me that any German who came his way would ‘ get it , ’ so I felt I must do likewise in hospital . |
| 16 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 17 | ‘ meticulous experiments have convinced me that this ratio ( 1:100 ) between the quantity of diluent and that of the medicine being dynamized is far too low to develop the medicinal substance properly and to a high degree with a large number of succussions unless force is used … |
| 18 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 19 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 20 | Actually , he admitted in private that Sir Isidore Salmon had told him that continued support of the British Union of Fascists would mean the withdrawal of all Lyons 's advertisements from the Daily Mail , as well as any other financial inconveniences which could be arranged . |
| 21 | I have told him that COED CYMRU can have eight pages , provided he can raise a minimum of £1,000 to cover its production costs . |
| 22 | Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ . |
| 23 | we 've had it since last January |
| 24 | ‘ Now that the genie is out of the bottle , we have to face the fact that the monarchy as we have understood it since Victorian times is virtually over . |
| 25 | I 've only known you since first thing this morning and I have n't had time to take everything in . |
| 26 | She liked the people — many of whom she knew well , and at least as importantly — many of whom knew her well and had known her since early childhood , before the mark of fame had set her apart . |
| 27 | Its age old pre-historic instinct had brought it and many others to the spot a day ago in a bloody frenzy of feeding . |
| 28 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 29 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 30 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |