Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The police are appealing for any person who was in the area at this time and may have witnessed the incident to contact them . ’ |
| 2 | And some travelled the horse walking it , but some rode a pony . |
| 3 | Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously . |
| 4 | When he had stopped the car to pick her up she had been terrified . |
| 5 | Norwegian television had followed the big race the previous year and about 100 kilometres from its end had stopped the leader to interview him . |
| 6 | RIGHT The value of having taught the dog to allow you to open its mouth is clearly visible here . |
| 7 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |
| 8 | We 'd guessed that whatever local dispute had provoked the initial spat it was now a battle between much larger factions , probably Amal and Hezbollah . |
| 9 | So the lads have er flown the coop have they ? |
| 10 | Realising these advantages assumes that DHAs do have bargaining leverage over providers , that they do have choices and that they are given the freedom to make them . |
| 11 | A tall order , but possible , given the will to make it succeed by all those involved . |
| 12 | Premier John Major said he ‘ had not turned his mind ’ to a revamp and senior aides given the chance to rule it out refused to comment . |
| 13 | Our forecaster Charlie Neil is being given the chance to bring you more detail on our region 's weather conditions , and sometimes a look ahead to local events . |
| 14 | Without any exaggeration , it would be true to say that , apart from Tory ideologues , the overwhelming majority of people in this country would agree to this legislation , if they were given the chance to read it and in more simple terms . |
| 15 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Holt , a Fleming director , said : ‘ Given the share register we regarded the rights as more of a placing . ’ |
| 17 | More important , support for the League would be maximized if people were given the opportunity to support it without supporting war . |
| 18 | And the moment he mentioned his stepmother she 'd be given the opportunity to tell him how very unhappy Bertha had become . |
| 19 | Luckily for England , Miandad was not given the opportunity to haunt them much longer . |
| 20 | No doubt he would have given the world to call her back , but he would not give his chance of heaven . |
| 21 | Presidential elections were scheduled for January 1993 , although under the new Constitution parliament was given the power to postpone them . |
| 22 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 23 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 24 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 25 | Staff at one of the country 's oldest breweries have joined the fight to keep it independent . |
| 26 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 27 | A woman who was in danger of losing her home after she mortgaged it as security for her husband 's business debts , has won the right to keep it following a victory in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |
| 29 | Robbie had expected the dog to pursue them , but instead there was a splash and she realised he had gone into the water . |
| 30 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |