Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment Mauleverer tottered in and made for the armchair beside the fire . |
| 2 | Mothers kept their children away from us , and were grateful when we had checked in and gone for a coffee . |
| 3 | My cases were brought in and stacked against the wall . |
| 4 | Forty provides abundant examples of the complex manner in which commerce developed new goods around perceived divisions in the target population and a series of beliefs about the nature of hygiene , domesticity , science and modernity which become enshrined in and reproduced through the appearance of everyday objects , although again the transformation of goods in consumption is largely ignored . |
| 5 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 6 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 7 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 8 | The concept , as employed by orthodox Marxism , goes from the singular to the universal and therefore , Sartre claims , detotalizes in a movement of ‘ decompressive expansion ’ , whereas incarnation involves ‘ a way of totalizing compression which , on the contrary , seizes the centripetal movement of all the significations drawn in and condensed in the event or in the object ’ ( II , 59 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ A monkey came in and perched on a table . |
| 10 | Later Beatrice was carried in and laid on the sofa , sobered by the experience , her breasts daubed in blood . |
| 11 | It is one of those inexplicable events that a rabbit hole in the middle of a field can be gassed and its population exterminated , the hole filled in and cultivated over the top , yet , even after the passage of a number of years , a rabbit will go to that exact location and restore the old system . |
| 12 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 17 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 18 | They issued in , among many other reforms , the Education Act of 1918 , introduced by Lloyd George 's Minister of Education , H. A. L. Fisher ( who was knocked down and killed in the black-out in April 1940 ) . |
| 19 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | With 92 other offences taken into consideration , including arson , blackmail , three sendings-off and a professional foul , Proby was sent down and dismissed by the club . |
| 22 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 23 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Dot kept still and quiet , head down and hunched like a bird sleeping , hoping Gloria would n't know she was in there . |
| 26 | Jason looked down and fiddled with a pencil on his desk . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd be irradiated if he 'd turned the bribe down and gone to the freight car . ’ |
| 29 | The carts had been washed down and polished for the day 's event . |
| 30 | She rose from her chair at the little antique bureau which stood in the attic window space , bent down and fumbled for the catch of the secret drawer which she had found there . |