Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 2 | But in the autumn they come down and settle in the grazing pastures where we take the sheep in summer . |
| 3 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 4 | It was once the most lavish Baroque building in the ghetto but was burnt down and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style between 1883 and 1913 . |
| 5 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 6 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 7 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 8 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | It is clear that such occasions brought together , often from many countries , knights who were brought up and trained in the same martial traditions . |
| 10 | I 'm going to have to clear up and go in the other room . |
| 11 | When the permanent notes arrive the two sets are joined up and filed in the usual way . |
| 12 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 13 | Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard . |
| 14 | Unless he considers that there are important aspects requiring further investigation in depth , the Chief Inspector will order that a summary of the facts relating to — the accident be drawn up and published in the next monthly issue of AIB bulletins . |
| 15 | The second job of the day is to light the stove , a monument in itself , taking up a quarter of the thatched hut with its various extensions — a sill ( pod ) with an area for keeping dishes warm ( chestok ) , niches ( pechurki ) for small objects and matches , holes on the side for drying out leg and foot wrappings ( for lack of shoes ) , holes near the summit for reviving chilled hens in winter , and on the triumphal summit worn clothing on which to stretch out and sleep in the delicious warmth — ‘ U hholodnoi pechi ne sogreesh'sia ’ ( ‘ You ca n't heat yourself at a cold stove ’ ) . |
| 16 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 17 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 18 | In 1834 reforming zealots destroyed a vast collection of Exchequer tallies in the furnaces of the House of Lords , and through the centuries they have been thoughtlessly thrown out and destroyed in the same way that , after a period , we ourselves dump old bills and receipts . |
| 19 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
| 20 | Now if we were actually to do that in our service books , which is what one of the things that the Methodist conference suggests we consider , just crossing out and putting in the correct non-sexists language , I bet you that eighty percent of our church would be up in arms . |
| 21 | The public sector of the economy has been rolled back and strikes in the public sector have been resisted . |
| 22 | After two days which give them time to gain maximum strength they are taken back and released in the same areas as the eggs were collected . |
| 23 | Eventually Bligh had to turn round and run in the other direction , right round the earth , into the Pacific . |