Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the crosspiece he had painted the words : Oliver Bean . |
| 2 | I have just uttered the words ‘ May I be struck by lightning this minute ’ . |
| 3 | Only after having uttered the words , which she immediately regretted , did Lucy realise just how much the constant endearments had riled her . |
| 4 | His lips moved as if he was about to say something , but he had not formed the words when she interrupted him . |
| 5 | Her mouth had formed the words before she realised . |
| 6 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 7 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 8 | ‘ I have heard the words of the Great Spirits , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 10 | And yet , he had an assurance , he had a peace , he had heard the words of Jesus , today , you will be with me in paradise . |
| 11 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 12 | Others , however , think it proper to speak of the intention of Parliament , in the sense of ‘ the meaning which Parliament must have intended the words to convey . ’ |
| 13 | The public good defence for performances which were proved to be ‘ in the interests of drama , opera , ballet or any other art , or of literature or learning ’ omitted the words ‘ or other objects of general concern ’ , thereby rejecting the so-called ‘ therapeutic defence ’ according to which pornography was claimed to be ‘ psychologically beneficial ’ to some persons ‘ in that it relieves their sexual tensions and may divert them from anti-social activities ’ . |
| 14 | This implies two things : firstly , that in his original draft Robertson had included the words " Chetniks " ; and secondly that he had specifically intended that some " dissident Yugoslavs " should be excluded from the order . |
| 15 | Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used . |
| 16 | Aunt Lou had n't caught the words . |
| 17 | The 1988 Licensing Act and the 1991 Children and Young Persons ( Protection from Tobacco ) Act have deleted the words ‘ knowingly ’ and ‘ apparently ’ . |
| 18 | She had not considered the words ; they arrived , simply , and once said , seemed right . |
| 19 | In fact , he realized , she had simply adopted the words other people must have said to her over and over again . |
| 20 | The bottle of PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG was kept in the cupboard in the bathroom , and underneath the title on the label were written the words Caution , this is peroxide . |
| 21 | Schiller had already written the words , in his Ode to joy ; and Beethoven had provided the music . |
| 22 | In any case , although some of the speeches became tougher ( in tabloid terms he began to slam and lash Labour ) , his delivery has never matched the words . |
| 23 | Peregrine had murmured the words seconds after the catastrophe happened . |
| 24 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 25 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 26 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 27 | For a minute Isabel thought she 'd said the words aloud , or that fitzAlan had . |
| 28 | This association has become further emphasized by writers who have muddled the words ‘ matriliny ’ — descent through the female line — and ‘ matriarchy ’ — rule by women . |
| 29 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 30 | Burden , who had heard them , had memorised the words and repeated them to his chief . |