Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She had travelled somewhere way up north — Newcastle or something .
2 An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight .
3 The accountant will try to ensure that the band have given enough thought to how long this money is likely to last , and how best to use it until the next payment or earnings are due .
4 But housing experts and governments just have not given enough thought to the type of building materials that developing countries need .
5 What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ?
6 Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to .
7 I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to .
8 AS SOON as I see a screen full of Florida palm fronds , broken down clapboard houses and Cadillacs full of heaving , unhappy women , I know we are in for an Erotic Thriller .
9 Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway .
10 This pathway is again in a dreadful condition with litter , lack of bins and broken down fencing .
11 Millions of people throughout the country lived in buildings which were either due for demolition because they were unsafe , or had received only emergency repairs .
12 A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty .
13 The very low prevalence of seropositivity for HIV antibodies in children aged under 6 is encouraging since these children will have received only blood products that had been treated to inactivate HIV .
14 Currently he was rereading Tace 's autobiography of which the author had completed only Book One , dying in the midst of describing his thirtieth year .
15 Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece .
16 Mr Dance gives us many of the man 's essential qualities : his psychological dependence on his mother , his solitariness ( he is constantly placed down front gazing over the audience 's heads ) , his antique , tribal valour .
17 Physical dependence with prolonged use ( approximately 7 days ) leading to withdrawal if the infusion is stopped suddenly Withdrawal signs are the same as those for morphine .
18 Voters are given only part of the story when making their decisions .
19 She was told unruly children were placed in solitary confinement and given only bread and water for a week .
20 Someone , something , moved in the dark shadows by the empty fire-grate , filled in summer with a copper jug stuffed full of artificial flowers .
21 Switching codes holds no fears for Sillars Stalker who , having topped off his last jumping campaign with a four-timer , filled in time during the summer , scoring three times on the Flat .
22 One must look behind the legal forms to see how offices were filled in practice .
23 Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ .
24 He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen .
25 During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve .
26 That 's the black Filled in version is one type of atom and that 's another
27 Some tanned the leather in season , or boiled down hoof and horn in the great vats that stood inside the ramshackle building of the tannery itself .
28 If it had n't worked out , I would simply have carried on road riding . ’
29 CAMEO is designed to be carried on emergency vehicles and has undergone successful on-scene field trials with the Seattle Fire Department .
30 To avoid damage , Gyproc cove should be carried on edge , whether singly or in a bundle .
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