Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 2 | His two Cabinet portfolios , which would make him the most powerful member of the government after the Prime Minister , were expected to give him a key role in the formulation of the country 's overall foreign policy . |
| 3 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 4 | It is designed to give you a good return on your money over the longer term . |
| 5 | However , if you now have the determination to become a bigger fish in a bigger pool , then you will take what occurred around the lunar eclipse on August 6th as a signal to put the past behind you and devote all your energy to plants designed to give you a greater degree of freedom . |
| 6 | It 's a short course , developed on scientific principles , designed to give you a basic grounding in the vocabulary , usage and pronunciation of Japlish . |
| 7 | And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time . |
| 8 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
| 9 | It is designed to offer them a net return higher than that available direct from any building society deposit account . |
| 10 | The Good Retirement Guide is not designed to offer you a ready-made philosophy or a few rose-tinted blueprints on the theme ‘ Life Begins in Middle Age ’ . |
| 11 | Just guess who 's come to pay you a little visit ! ’ |
| 12 | The headmaster had a large store of quotations designed to show what a nice , easygoing bloke Muhammad was . |
| 13 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 14 | This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty . |
| 15 | He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night . |
| 16 | This is said to give you a quick energy boost . |
| 17 | Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days . |
| 18 | Despite these minor domestic headaches , it was decided to give him a special birthday treat of a guided tour of the Chubb Factory to decide exactly how all those interesting little gadgets actually work and no doubt to take away a few tips as well . |
| 19 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 20 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 21 | ‘ A bit old , though , ’ Wayne ventured again , and Pete slowly turned to give him a stony look . |
| 22 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 23 | I think it was also about that time when it was decided to phase our the old term of Customs Waterguard for the uniformed branch , with Waterguard becoming a dirty word . |
| 24 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 25 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 26 | The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates . |
| 27 | Pye eventually agreed to lease me a small factory in Watford , in which I set up my new company . |
| 28 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 29 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 30 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |