Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
2 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
3 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
4 | The positions Into which seasonal workers are placed tend to be relatively unskilled ones demanding little or no previous experience . |
5 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
6 | Dr Nagle , does the way the patient was treated influence your success in rehabilitation ? |
7 | With foot pointed raise the top leg and do 35 mini raises . |
8 | Anfibio Leather : a specially treated hide leather which is durable , supple and water-resistant . |
9 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
10 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
11 | At the words ‘ lovely pictures ’ , Amaranth remembered the ‘ spread ’ in Penthouse for which she had received –500 all that time ago . |
12 | The kids who have experienced the problems of occupational discrimination and believe their opportunities are limited make their beliefs public to those with whom they most identify — in this case , other blacks . |
13 | 45754 : Mravinsky is the only conductor I have ever heard make Shostakovich 's Twelfth Symphony remotely convincing . |
14 | Weber 's photographs were given display that was unprecedented for anyone in fashion , particularly someone so young . " |
15 | Years spent as a printer had taught Cook the value of advertising and his handbills about the trips gave details of each town 's attractions , including the excellence of the shops . |
16 | The data we have examined suggest that the poll tax was not itself the prime cause of the variation in results either between types of local authority or individual councils . |
17 | The items listed appear to cover most projects . |
18 | Owners of contaminated houses want to know if they have any comeback , those of houses which are not contaminated want the ban on their properties lifted immediately . |
19 | We 're joined 'til the end of time . |
20 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
21 | Early neolithic farmers favoured multistrand crescentic necklaces made up of tubular and disc-shaped beads kept apart by laterally perforated oblong spacer beads and pulled together by triangular toggles . |
22 | I 've heard say that Grandad used to rise at five o'clock in the morning during summertime to water the garden , all carried by hand , of course . |
23 | ‘ It 's a Geordie custom , I 've heard say . |
24 | Many carers , I have heard say , time and time again , that they feel guilty even asking they did n't even know they had a right to ask , well this legislation now allows people to ask , does n't mean to say their needs are gon na be met , but at least it gives them a right to ask . |
25 | I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week . |
26 | Not the cover on him there might have been , the sort of er chance clear chance that was given say to in the local derby match the other Saturday , and really made it count . |
27 | It was reclassified ‘ Type J/1 ’ ( reports that No. 11 was similarly treated appear to be unfounded ) . |
28 | ‘ Those who have had their homes repossessed expect to be able to get a council house easily , ’ she added . |
29 | I have n't she pressed shift there we are . |
30 | Arjun had given Burun the land for all time , and now the Merkuts occupied it in peace and prospered . |