Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come to see you under another guise . |
| 2 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 3 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 4 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 5 | Chapters 2 and 3 are designed to help you on both counts . |
| 6 | Aerial spraying of the fungicide , which goes under the trade name of " Ronilan " , is now completely outlawed and farmers are forbidden to use it on any crop which is not peeled or shelled . |
| 7 | And almost before he had finished speaking , his mouth forced itself over hers in a kiss that was clearly designed to punish her for that last remark . |
| 8 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 9 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 10 | Oh yes I 'd forgotten to ask you about that . |
| 11 | ‘ A curious time you have picked to tell us of this , Michael Riven , ’ Murtach said , smiling wryly . |
| 12 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 13 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 14 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 15 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 16 | Some proportional series , however , can only be extended along one axis at a time ; if an attempt is made to extend them along both axes simultaneously , unfillable structure points are created . |
| 17 | I 've decided to let you off this time . ’ |
| 18 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 19 | It is perhaps somewhat strange , given the proven commercial success of the VT600 , that very little effort is made to market it in this country . |
| 20 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 21 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 22 | Then a list of frames indexed by that theme noun is searched to associate it with any frames currently active ( i.e. , those indexed by previous theme nouns ) . |
| 23 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 24 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 25 | but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ? |
| 26 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 27 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 28 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 29 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 30 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |