Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was vividly illustrated in one household we visited where the bedroom was so damp that clothes stored in the cupboard had to be removed daily and spread on a clothes-horse in front of the fire to dry out . |
| 2 | Artificial granules were collected by centrifugation ( 33,000 g ) , resuspended in and examined in a NMR tube containing a -benzene capillary . |
| 3 | Mothers kept their children away from us , and were grateful when we had checked in and gone for a coffee . |
| 4 | ‘ A monkey came in and perched on a table . |
| 5 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , had almost sunk by the time it had been towed in and hauled onto a slipway . |
| 6 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 7 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 8 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 9 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
| 10 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 11 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 12 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 13 | Dot kept still and quiet , head down and hunched like a bird sleeping , hoping Gloria would n't know she was in there . |
| 14 | Jason looked down and fiddled with a pencil on his desk . |
| 15 | The fine tree was soon noticed by the king of Byblos , who ordered it to be cut down and made into a column to support the hall roof of his palace . |
| 16 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
| 17 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 18 | Not a lot really , he 's come down and hacked through a couple of tunes with us . |
| 19 | Be sure to provide a comfortable bed , which can be a cardboard box with its sides cut down and lined with a blanket . |
| 20 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 21 | After the Battle of the White Mountain and the executions of 1621 opposite in the square , the symbol of the Utraquists — the chalice — was melted down and recast as a Madonna in 1626 . |
| 22 | After that he 'd come down and hopped through a hole in the fence where the canal ran alongside some waste ground , and now he was staying off the streets as he made his way across town and toward home ground . |
| 23 | However , many Type 2 patients can be commenced on diet alone and reviewed in a month . |
| 24 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 25 | The plaintiff was born prematurely and suffered from an oxygen deficiency . |
| 26 | Ignition typically required about 1 g of a mixture of sodium borohydride and charcoal , when equal portions of each were mixed together and formed into a pile . |
| 27 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 28 | These vouchers are collected together and despatched with an account to the respective credit card companies , who will then pay the amount owing less commission , direct to the hotel . |
| 29 | The quay , which acted as the customs shed , was three rusting barges lashed together and covered with a roof of corrugated iron . |
| 30 | When two blocks of the same polymer are brought together and held at a temperature just above the T g for a time t , interdiffusion of the chains takes place from each block across the interface ( see figure 12.6 ) thereby joining the blocks together . |