Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This has developed my liking for theatre and I am much more aware of theatre issues than before . ’ |
| 2 | I 've bought Smiths records but they have never altered my way of thinking . |
| 3 | It would just have altered my level of safety and I would have forgotten the route completely by now . |
| 4 | I 'd have gone against Maria Luisa and broken my vow of silence to put you out of your misery . |
| 5 | He unscrewed the glass stopper to this receptacle , and , having filled my beaker with water , poured the solution into it . |
| 6 | A : I 've consulted my source of reference , the ever handy SpinRite , and this tells me that the Tandon TM262 was a 3.5-inch drive , not a 5.25-inch one . |
| 7 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 8 | Given my reputation for intelligence , I hardly dared confess my lack of comprehension . |
| 9 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 10 | I 've enjoyed my football with City and would like to stay . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've thoroughly enjoyed my time as manager and put 100 per cent effort into the job . |
| 12 | ‘ They have earned their money by building houses that have benefited people like themselves , ’ he says . |
| 13 | They have earned their rest from work . |
| 14 | In earlier days they had actually earned their living by war and become rich from the plunder they could collect on their annual expeditions . |
| 15 | Rachaela had expensively rescued her furniture from store . |
| 16 | He had shattered her barrier of ice but he had left her defenceless . |
| 17 | In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back . |
| 18 | This chapter looks at geomancy and the variety of ways , of which the magical approach is but one , in which people have modified their environment in order to achieve inner change . |
| 19 | ( Note that Liz Waterland has modified her idea of apprenticeship since this 1985 pamphlet appeared : ‘ It seems to me now that the text , whether in print or in the child 's own creation , is the guide and demonstrator , the adult and the child together are the apprentices — albeit at different stages of competence — who are feeling their way towards knowledge of the meaning of words ’ ( Waterland , 1986 , p. 147 ) . |
| 20 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 21 | Moderator could the convenor tell us why the Board wishes to be discharged its remit on health and healing when it 's been so successful in bringing this to the notice of the whole church ? |
| 22 | Equally , it must be apparent from the statement of reasons how the court has approached its duty under section 25 or indeed whatever section or sections of the Act of 1989 with which they are concerned . |
| 23 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 24 | She smiled grimly , realising one thing — if nothing else , since she 'd met Fen , she had regained her sense of humour . |
| 25 | PREMATURE baby Leah Roberts has won her fight for life . |
| 26 | Then the lady told her brother that the little tailor had rescued her from her sleep and had killed the black artist and had won her hand in marriage . |
| 27 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 28 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 29 | On July 19 the Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Muneo Suzuki , said during the first official government visit to South Africa since 1969 that Japan was considering lifting economic sanctions , having lifted its ban on tourism and non-economic sanctions in June [ see p. 38270 ] . |
| 30 | The most feared special forces unit in the world has lifted its blanket of secrecy to give TODAY an exclusive insight . |