Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you . |
| 3 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 4 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 5 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 6 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 7 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 8 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 9 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 10 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 11 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 12 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 13 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 14 | Sarah had joined them through another miracle , a cloak thrown by Mary Jacobus which upheld her feet on the water . |
| 15 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 16 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 17 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 18 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 19 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 20 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 21 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 22 | Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light . |
| 23 | Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light . |
| 24 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 26 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 27 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 28 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 29 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 30 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |