Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 2 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 3 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 5 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 6 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 7 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 8 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 9 | I have repeatedly made it clear in the House and beyond that I am working to seek an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and this country . |
| 10 | I 've never seen anything suspicious in the club . ’ |
| 11 | I had n't noticed anything untoward in the animal 's behaviour , but I believed what Lili said . |
| 12 | Have you noticed anything untoward in the village ? ’ |
| 13 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 14 | After 1787 the graveyard was no longer used and the Jewish community buried its dead in the cemetery in the Žižkov quarter . |
| 15 | I 've got one free in the afternoon so |
| 16 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 17 | He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare . |
| 18 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 19 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |
| 20 | Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables . |
| 21 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 22 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 23 | His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life . |
| 24 | Hytner , Warner and Branagh have declared themselves uninterested in the executive hassle of running our large subsidised companies . |
| 25 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 26 | But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things . |
| 27 | Suppose one of them had put something nasty in the food by error — or by purpose . |
| 28 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 29 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 30 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |