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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 This pathway is again in a dreadful condition with litter , lack of bins and broken down fencing .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Someone , something , moved in the dark shadows by the empty fire-grate , filled in summer with a copper jug stuffed full of artificial flowers .
7 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 .
8 One must look behind the legal forms to see how offices were filled in practice .
9 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 ’ .
10 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 .
11 During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve .
12 That 's the black Filled in version is one type of atom and that 's another
13 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 .
14 If it had n't worked out , I would simply have carried on road riding . ’
15 CAMEO is designed to be carried on emergency vehicles and has undergone successful on-scene field trials with the Seattle Fire Department .
16 To avoid damage , Gyproc cove should be carried on edge , whether singly or in a bundle .
17 Up to 2,200lb of bombs could be carried on underwing racks .
18 It will be about twice as long as the goods brake and , as Colin 's article states , it will be carried on No. 5 's bogies and used as a mobile shop/ticket office/refreshment car .
19 The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road .
20 But a fiery sermon by a Muslim cleric , who demanded the ejection from Libya of all diplomats from countries supporting the sanctions , was carried on state television on Friday .
21 Could of carried on love
22 ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony .
23 The number of documentary programmes — compared with what is currently carried on Radio 4 will treble .
24 It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel .
25 Full details of what promise to be uplifting and enjoyable celebrations are carried on page 4 and the back cover .
26 The bodies of these cars were carried on channel steel underframes and there were steel platform bearers .
27 These from the castle will be more powerful , with longer range than any that can be carried on shipboard .
28 The tram rail is carried on trailer 751 , which is fitted with a hydraulic crane for loading and unloading .
29 On the hearing of the petition he decided that the debtor had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales ’ within a period of three years ending with the presentation of the petition for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of the Insolvency Act 1986and made the order sought .
30 By a notice of appeal dated 29 November 1991 the debtor appealed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order because she had not carried on business in England or Wales within three years prior to the presentation of the petition .
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