Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 26-year-old married businessman was beaten up , burned and sexually assaulted by a torture gang ‘ and the six-man gang tried to tear out their victim 's toenails with pliers — then ripped off adhesive tape they had stuck to his genitals … |
| 2 | Coach Keith Richardson has named his team but its being treated as classified information he wants to keep Northampton guessing … 007 has the day off but morese code from Kingsholm tells us skipper Ian Smith will be back in the team … |
| 3 | It scared her , but as she glanced secretly across at the face she had never forgotten for one moment she realised she was more excited than scared . |
| 4 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 5 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 6 | The conventional hip replacement is designed in one piece it 's rigid and made in standard sizes.But the new design called the Oxford Universal Hip is made up of three components , each component is available in different sizes . |
| 7 | When the values of the differentials at y are substituted in this expression we have at y . |
| 8 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 9 | Decorated in Venetian style it is close to all the major city sights — St. Mark 's Square — but also neighbours the less frequented old quarter of Venice full of picturesque ancient houses , tiny bridges and canals . |
| 10 | So there 's me like I 'm sat in first lesson we have P E last lesson sat in the first lesson and I 'm th , I 've thought God my bra strap feels really lose ! |
| 11 | that the candidate knows which outcomes or units are included in any assessment he or she is undertaking . |
| 12 | The permitted energy states in such a system form a so-called ‘ surface sub-band ’ , and when all the mobile electrons are contained in one sub-band we have reached the electric quantum limit . |
| 13 | At the stepping rates considered in this Chapter we are justified in regarding the rotor velocity as constant ; the system inertia is sufficient to maintain a steady speed , even if the motor torque varies slightly during each step . |
| 14 | Given that the EC is committed to economic convergence it would be counterproductive if resulting from the operation of the budget , economic divergence was reinforced rather than reduced . |
| 15 | Unless you are very strongly attracted to private practice you would be well advised to prefer one of these careers in salaried employment . |
| 16 | ‘ When we were approached on this deal we used it to tie in with the release of one of our hostages held in Lebanon . ’ |
| 17 | It struck me as I fumblingly dialled the number that it would be better to go out to a kiosk , where I would be more sure of privacy , but having come to this decision I only wanted to hurry , hurry — every minute 's delay seemed dangerous . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in the last analysis he was most influenced by the composite picture he had formed of Iberian art he had seen , although one particular head which remained in the Louvre seems especially relevant to the central figures of the great canvas . |
| 19 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 21 | Surely if a charge is made for this service it should be made to District Audit who , I understand , asked for the information in the first place . |
| 22 | Now if you read what is written about this change you 'd think the BBC was about to axe Radio 4 . |
| 23 | Now if you read what is written about this change you 'd think the BBC was about to axe Radio 4 . |
| 24 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 25 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 26 | Even when possessed of high ability he is often forced to settle for the position i on the catastrophe surface . |
| 27 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 28 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 29 | The effect of the disappearance of such local legislation in 1919 is that it would be unwise to leave off drafting replacement legislation until 1978 , since if an order for the purpose met with any setback it might be too late to correct it before the present law disappears . |
| 30 | After all , it 's in their interests to keep you going — if you 're pushed into total insolvency you become a worse debt to them . |