Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | Filling in perfectly for the missing men , women filled in the gaps in such important industries as agriculture , to provide food , weapons and munitions manufacturing , and railways and transport . |
| 3 | 3DO Co Inc , San Mateo , California has filled in the details on its planned initial public offering and has filed to offer 2.2m shares , all new , at a target price of $11 a share to raise working capital to fund anticipated operating losses . |
| 4 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 5 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 6 | Sometimes xerolas ( vegetables and/or fruits , often in the shape of a gigantic ball and strung on a pole which is carried on the shoulders of two men ) are carried in the procession . |
| 7 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 8 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 9 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 10 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 11 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 12 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 13 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 14 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 15 | ‘ Had you picked up the skills by watching your mother ? ’ |
| 16 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 17 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 18 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 19 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 20 | The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said . |
| 21 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 22 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 23 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 24 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 25 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 26 | The marriage of Louis-Napoleon to Eugénie de Montijo undoubtedly stoked up the fires of her discontent , but the hearth was comfortably alight even before the marriage . |
| 27 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 28 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 29 | As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros . |
| 30 | Once you have sorted out the distractions like that , you can have some amazing fun re-planning your house . |