Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 2 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 3 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 4 | Like him , my children have had to stand by helpless and in absolute panic while their father has brutally beaten me in front of them . |
| 5 | Your family has obviously sustained you through many crises . |
| 6 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 7 | If you swear that her little one-off has so turned you against her that you could n't possibly bear to live with her any longer , you 'll get your divorce . |
| 8 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 9 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 10 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 11 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 12 | He has not created me for nothing . |
| 13 | The apartheid system has historically led to the disintegration of family and kin structures , but has not replaced it with anything else . |
| 14 | I trust Cully Chatterton has not appropriated it in order to check out casino share prices . ’ |
| 15 | Ken has encouraged me to circulate this , although he has not seen it in detail . |
| 16 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |
| 17 | His sister and both brothers have identical trust funds this million pound figure has grown to the size , just today around forty million because Prince because the Prince has not touched it in all these years . |
| 18 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 19 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |
| 21 | Even if it is assumed that actual bodily harm has been inflicted in these circumstances , the defendant has inflicted it during intercourse but has not inflicted it in order to have or continue having sexual intercourse . |
| 22 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 23 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 24 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 25 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 26 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 27 | Traditional Socialist values , notably egalitarianism , remain but , as Roy Hattersley frequently complains , Labour as a party has not embodied them in policies — or even slogans — that enunciate a clear vision of what a Labour Britain would be like . |
| 28 | ‘ I overheard her say to her friend that she had lost something , but she has not reported it to me . |
| 29 | That has not got you into the Kingdom of God . |
| 30 | Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation . |