Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] an open " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 2 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 3 | The Anti-Rex crawled down the wall of the Butcher Building and in through an open window . |
| 4 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 5 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 6 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 7 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 8 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 9 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 10 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 11 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 12 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 13 | You creep along to an open doorway . |
| 14 | SEVKI AKINCI : a 16-year old Kurdish boy , on 9 April 1992 he beaten and abused by soldiers , held down over an open fire , and then left for dead . |
| 15 | Today , 40 women stroll over to an open yard under the hot Andean sun carrying tools and babies , many knitting as they walk . |
| 16 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 17 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 18 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 19 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 20 | For the rest , if it does blow up into an open accusation , he 'll have to come clean . |
| 21 | In the fullerene-road mechanism , the metal ion would have to be taken up on an open cluster early on during growth , and the fullerene shell would then have to grow around the metal . |
| 22 | Alix brought a chrome bowl out of an open cupboard , set it down ajangle with instruments of torture and turned on the generator for her machines . |
| 23 | Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar . |
| 24 | The unsuspecting victim was horrified when a ‘ corpse ’ leaned out of an open coffin to ask him for a takeaway pizza . |
| 25 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 26 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 27 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 28 | ‘ Elspeth ’ took her unbroken horse out into an open space . |
| 29 | Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position . |
| 30 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |