Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 2 | Well , I 've got fre , I 've got bills to pay down town . |
| 3 | As far a treating their own fans goes , well Elland Road is n't exactly the Ritz , but I 've never had problems picking up tickets etc either . |
| 4 | The answer probably lies in the way so called principles set up expectations for the future . |
| 5 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |
| 6 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 7 | In this novel , the genteel young heroine from the south of England , Margaret , is compelled by her father 's reduced circumstances to take up residence in a city called Milton , closely based on Manchester , and comes into social contact with a local mill-owner called Thornton . |
| 8 | Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years . |
| 9 | Six of the world 's major rival providers of financial information ( Dun & Bradstreet , Disclosure , Moody 's , Extel Financial , ICC and Hemmington Scott ) have joined forces to set up Companyline . |
| 10 | THE FRENCH aerospace company , Matra , and Hawker de Havilland of Australia have joined forces to set up Australia 's first space company . |
| 11 | The irritating clarity which her dissolving mind afforded long gone events brought back memories of an archaeological expedition to classify similar megaliths on Sensuron . |
| 12 | ‘ Some have taken loans to pay off loans . |
| 13 | Financial and legal pressures have forced councils to hand over debt recovery to private agents known as sheriffs ' officers — Scottish bailiffs — in a surprisingly clinical fashion . |
| 14 | Should both the Clacton and Harwich travel-to-work areas receive assisted area status firms can be given grants to set up shop in the area . |
| 15 | One small town has stopped householders throwing out garden rubbish . |