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

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1 Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone .
2 The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles .
3 If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing .
4 I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs .
5 So if I 'm late for work one day , you 'll know why , I 've probably fallen down a hole somewhere .
6 When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch .
7 Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long .
8 Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff .
9 ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma .
10 One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit .
11 He would also like to see the hierarchy between professors and younger scientists , stronger in Germany than in the UK and US , broken down a little .
12 A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender .
13 I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months .
14 The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that .
15 Filled in a new rent rebate form .
16 Tracey and her supervisor together with Mrs Brown have already filled in a Care Plan Assessment Form .
17 When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap .
18 ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . )
19 You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it .
20 When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible .
21 And filled in a registration form that could be checked on .
22 The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 .
23 The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 .
24 Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups .
25 If they have filled in a card , declaring willing for a dealer to approach them with urgent share recommendations , they are not being cold-called if subsequently telephoned .
26 If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’
27 Thus 500 women filled in a questionnaire and had anthropometric measurements taken at intake .
28 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so .
29 And then you 've filled in a works situations
30 because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line ,
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