Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a three-year investigation involving the Police Complaints Authority , it was announced that a number of police officers were to be admonished or advised about their conduct and were to face disciplinary charges . |
| 2 | Your intruder alarm must not be altered or replaced without our prior written agreement . |
| 3 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 4 | Universal and human consciousness are one and the same in nature , the only difference being that individual consciousness is experienced as limited or restricted in its operation within its physical vehicle . |
| 5 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 6 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 7 | Before this week , Parmer had never been dropped or substituted in his club career . |
| 8 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 9 | Several inherited the throne in childhood , even in early infancy — ‘ Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child ’ — and were oppressed or imprisoned by their regents and guardians , kidnapped by the English , or bandied to and fro between powerful nobles . |
| 10 | They watched among the crowd as Eachuinn Odhar was lifted ashore unconscious , and Hector , under David Beaton 's supervision ; and over a hundred others , to be carried or helped by their keening womenfolk up to castle or clachan . |
| 11 | Their senses , instincts , behaviour , anatomy , physiology , digestion , biochemistry — the whole creature — is supremely designed and integrated for its bloodthirsty life . |
| 12 | We would like to contact women of above retirement age who live in houses they have had designed and built to their own requirements . |
| 13 | / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / . |
| 14 | Mr Reilly said : ‘ The engine was designed and engineered at our technical development centre in Russelsheim , Germany , and through close co-operation between engineers , designers and manufacturing experts , the total development period has been only four years . ’ |
| 15 | The continuing democratic process , he said , would be " pursued and followed to its conclusion in the setting up of a multiparty system " . |
| 16 | In the forest home of these birds the obscured vision in dense foliage necessitates a courtship strategy in which females are pursued and shown to their nest sites . |
| 17 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 18 | Give them room to be taken easily from their shelves , not wrenched and twisted from their tightly packed companions . |
| 19 | The long-standing idea that the Earth started out as a molten mass , gradually cooled and shrank to its present size ( a theory that still had adherents well into the 1950s ) , had to be abandoned . |
| 20 | But Mansell , still bruised and shaken after his accident on Saturday , had to overcome a poor start , which had resulted in him being passed by team-mate Riccardo Patrese on the opening lap . |
| 21 | Whilst tightly held in this position , the wall of the capsule is compressed and moulded to its smooth , vase-shaped outline . |
| 22 | A woman , aged 70 , was recovering at home yesterday after being attacked and robbed of her handbag as she was walking in Ernest Street , Boldon Colliery , after a night out playing bingo . |
| 23 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |
| 24 | The basic tale of how young Winifred Gwenffrwd , was attacked and beheaded by her thwarted assailant only to be revived by her uncle , St Beuno , is one of the better known legends of ancient Wales . |
| 25 | Her nipples had become rigid , almost unbearably sensitised , as his fingers gently squeezed and played with her firm round breasts . |
| 26 | The local authority involved should be applauded and encouraged in their efforts . |
| 27 | There is an enormous literature of research on the relationship , which the late Steven Box ( 1987 ) has usefully summarized and reviewed in his very important last book , Recession , Crime and Punishment . |
| 28 | The play follows Chapman from his miserable youth in suburban Georgia , where he was systematically bullied and humiliated by his father . |
| 29 | The former is an interface to existing database tables , allowing the information contained to be queried and used in your worksheets . |
| 30 | Able to absorb large amounts of punishment in combat , the P-47 Jug was respected and admired by its pilots and groundcrews alike , emerging as one of the great fighting aircraft of World War Two . |