Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 2 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 3 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 4 | I 've never seen anything suspicious in the club . ’ |
| 5 | I had n't noticed anything untoward in the animal 's behaviour , but I believed what Lili said . |
| 6 | Have you noticed anything untoward in the village ? ’ |
| 7 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 8 | I 've got one free in the afternoon so |
| 9 | He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare . |
| 10 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 11 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |
| 12 | His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life . |
| 13 | Suppose one of them had put something nasty in the food by error — or by purpose . |
| 14 | Anybody who had seen or heard anything suspicious in the neighbourhood of her home on Tuesday 1st September was urged to contact Thames Valley CID . |
| 15 | Flowers becomes the eighth booking in a season where Southampton have already managed one sending-off in the Premier League and one in a pre-season friendly . |