Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the festival of Christmas had arrived , and both papal and royal courts joined together to celebrate in St Peter 's basilica . |
| 2 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 3 | None of those wretches were distinguished enough to get into Who 's Who so one does n't have anywhere to start from . |
| 4 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 5 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 6 | Hundreds of people from all over the world have come together to talk about elves , hobbits and dragons . |
| 7 | In Darcy 's Utopia there will be elections , but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like . |
| 8 | The Israeli Cabinet met on Oct. 14 to discuss Resolution 672 and unanimously voted not to co-operate with Pérez de Cuellar 's mission . |
| 9 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |
| 10 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 11 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 12 | He 's being picked up to go to St. Joseph 's , I bet . |
| 13 | ‘ My husband died in a plane crash last year , so we 've come back to live in England . ’ |
| 14 | We met a number of young field-workers and others who had recently come back to work in Lewis and Harris , and were most impressed by their ability and devotion . |
| 15 | Her only coherent thought was that she should never have come back to stay in Wickrithe . |
| 16 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 17 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |
| 18 | ‘ But I will not have forgotten how to listen in Greek ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 20 | Consequently , these refugees are not merely attracted emotionally to return to Palestine but live under the pressure of a hostile environment which will continue to encourage them to leave Lebanon . |
| 21 | Well , there is the fact that it is connected to sensory endings that are designed specifically to respond to vibrations in the air . |
| 22 | It is argued in [ 110 ] that Euclid 's fifth axiom ( The whole is greater than the part ) was included specifically to eliminate from mathematics the paradoxes ( c. 450 BC ) of the infinite introduced by Zeno |
| 23 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 24 | you know , people have got to realize that this day and age er children are taught not to talk to strangers |
| 25 | As further evidence of diversity Room Three is given over to work by students from Colleges of Art and Polytechnics and in Room Four with the fully engaged professionals , there is Alan Dawson 's hugely impressive floor to ceiling Ball and Pin sculpture , Terence Clark 's open wall sculpture , and a spiky gate by Brian Russell , who did his training in Sunderland and now has a forge at Little Newsham , just outside Darlington . |
| 26 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 27 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 28 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 29 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 30 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |