Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England 's fortunes under Mike Gatting had been varied , losing relentlessly at home , carrying all before them in a triumphal tour of Australia , narrowly losing a World Cup final they should have won and then having their captain , under great provocation , address naughty words to a Pakistani umpire . |
| 2 | Owers helped Sunderland beat Port Vale at the beginning of their Cup run , but was substituted and then aggravated his groin trouble in the following 6–2 home win over Millwall in mid January . |
| 3 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 4 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 5 | The Lombard capital was at Pavia , but Milan was rebuilt and slowly regained its former significance . |
| 6 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 7 | The result is often cannibalism , especially in chickens and turkeys , which are debeaked and often have their toes cut by the same hot-knife machine as a preventative . |
| 8 | Not exactly lazy — although that is how he describes himself-as a delegator and motivator he had always excelled and now found himself less directly occupied . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century the various companies amalgamated and gradually merged their quarries into this one colossal pit , which has a circumference of about a mile and a depth of four hundred feet . |
| 10 | You rewrote the letter after the original had been burned , had your version photocopied and then sent me the copy . |
| 11 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 12 | Again , currently there is no way , official way , of saying what plan has been made and whether the plan was met and then logging it into whatever system that you guys are going to dream up for recording what training you have given . |
| 13 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |
| 14 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 15 | ( 8 ) Where the prospective parliamentary candidate has been selected and subsequently intimates his or her intention not to stand for parliament in the constituency as the Labour Party candidate at the next election , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall ( subject to section ( 4 ) of this clause ) be forthwith set in motion again . |
| 16 | The imperial authorities fully exploited and sometimes overstepped their constitutional powers : there were imperial laws for everything . |
| 17 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 18 | This is why so many businesses fail and , almost worse , why so many linger on with the craftsman under-rewarded and never developing his full potential . |
| 19 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 20 | But Reza Shah 's introduction of new civil , commercial and penal codes , which diminished the power of the ulama , his expansion of the secular school system , and many more is his attempts to create a modern , centralized state , weakened and therefore infuriated them . |
| 21 | He had started out to make a rough count of the houses to be visited and then let his thoughts drift into a reverie of his own old home , the far tropical look of the mountain skyline beyond Loch Arkaig on the rare hot days . |
| 22 | His wife , Paulina , recognises him , by his voice , as the man who tortured her 15 years ago while playing the Schubert song of the title ( she was blindfolded and never told his name ) . |
| 23 | ‘ At one point when my mother was ill , the district nurse refused to enter her home and treat her , for fear that she would be contaminated and consequently place her other patients in danger . ’ |
| 24 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 25 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 26 | If the work is to be comprehensive , thoroughly researched and well constructed it will take many years . |
| 27 | But this time we learned from our mistake , went after them with everything we had got and just pushed them through into the open sea . ’ |
| 28 | I put it in a basket whatever I 'd got and then dress it with a ‘ blower ’ or dressing machine ( if I could borrow one ) . |
| 29 | So we 've got and then d' ya think we 'll like get poetry and then we 'll get our last ? |
| 30 | The number of people I 've talked to that I definitely knew had got and never knew they had got it . |