Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the task is completed successfully there is joy and satisfaction ; and there is disappointment , sadness and anger if it is not . |
| 2 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 3 | Quinn had gambled on there being something inside the case to lead police and troops to whatever rendezvous he established with Zack . |
| 4 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 5 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 6 | Mrs Frizzell licked her finger and smoothed down her eyebrows with it . |
| 7 | And then she moved and with trembling hands smoothed down her skirt . |
| 8 | The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair . |
| 9 | When they 're gathered together they go ‘ Phwoaaaargghh ! ! ! ’ a lot — like most lads do — and generally they 're as right-on as a picket-line crossing , strike-breaking blackleg . |
| 10 | His amber light flashing , Enderby quickly gathered together his papers and made for his seat , only to be surrounded by newsmen . |
| 11 | Enter the particulars of the guests listed below who are in residence at the Atlas Hotel on an analysed visitors tabular ledger . |
| 12 | ( b ) Every such office shall be managed by one of the persons listed below who shall normally be in attendance at that office during all the hours when it is open to the public or open to telephone calls from the public : — |
| 13 | Holders of one of the qualifications listed below who , in addition , may be required by the centre to undertake , prior to or during the early part of the course , a centre devised programme of bridging studies . |
| 14 | In addition to the menus given below you are allowed : |
| 15 | The schemata are individual gardens and when they are joined together we have a spiritual world of boundless scope . |
| 16 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 17 | When 2 or 3 of these central forms are joined together they are referred to as pole medallions ( pls 1,2 ) . |
| 18 | And let's move on from that and when the door was broken down what did you do ? |
| 19 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 20 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 21 | So , having broken down our hypothesis into smaller testable parts we have now to decide how far we can hope to get with our present research project . |
| 22 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 23 | His head was shaved , and he had diagonal lines of green and red painted down his face . |
| 24 | No , so , Z two is the square root of two squared plus three squared so I want Z two square , is two square plus three square , different in square root , so the two times is two times , well two square is four plus that , , that is that . |
| 25 | A squared minus B squared so it 'll be , be one point one , plus point nine |
| 26 | When Dad had knocked the bottle out of my hand some of the bleach must have spilled down my face because my right eyebrow was blonde . |
| 27 | But when it was rammed down their throats it became a battle , and the manager lost . |
| 28 | I would n't say it was exactly narrow-minded , but you 've got a position , you 're given a position to hold and you get it rammed down you that ‘ I am now an applied scientist ’ . |
| 29 | Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation . |
| 30 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |