Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What about you , Jill ? " he asked his daughter , who had come out to see what the crisis was about . |
| 2 | This work had been carried out to remove what the Comptroller 's hearing officer accepted were ‘ major technical obstacles [ which ] stood in the way of the deployment of the rotary valve . |
| 3 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 4 | Leni was waiting at the foot of the last flight of stairs , which was partitioned off to give her a flimsy front door of her own . |
| 5 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 6 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 7 | His wife , Belinda , Herbert 's mother , is the ‘ only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight ’ , who has been brought up to consider herself a deprived aristocrat : ‘ she had grown up highly ornamental , but perfectly helpless and useless ’ , and spends her time studying Court guides , leaving her household and seven younger children to the haphazard care of the servants . |
| 8 | Head and Tennis World have teamed up to bring you a competition to win tennis competition used by some of the world 's top tennis players . |
| 9 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 10 | ‘ Gary has gone on to prove himself an international class player . |
| 11 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 12 | Yet against all these odds bigger crowds were coming to Elland Road , and the ground was smartened up to give it the image of a major sports centre . |
| 13 | HE CHATTED to his old acquaintance Al Gore , and got on famously with Bill Clinton ; and as Chris Patten , the governor of Hong Kong , left Washington , officials lined up to say what a fine fellow he was . |