Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant his leg was all skewed in and pushed against the other one . |
| 2 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 3 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 4 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 5 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 6 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 7 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 8 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ At night the corpses are cut down and taken to the great lime pits near Charterhouse . ’ |
| 11 | Access : At Llanberis take the road opposite the Snowdon Mountain Railway station and follow this down and left to the large car park of the Padarn Country Park and Lakeside Railway ( former quarry buildings ) . |
| 12 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 13 | One side is then printed and the sheet is then turned over and printed from the other edge using the same forme . |
| 14 | The B ♭ in the bass must be tied over and held throughout the following bar in our transcription if it is to convey faithfully the composer 's intention . |
| 15 | The disdain spilled over and spread to the other commuters scurrying to their cars . |
| 16 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | The laws , they argue , were soon dusted off and exercised to the full . |
| 18 | Before the wooden boat sank , however , her crew were taken off and treated with the utmost courtesy by Kapitän Leutnant F.K. Paul , who accepted the ML 's surrender : a tribute he paid to a gallant foe , and evidence if this is needed that chivalry is the prerogative of individuals , not nations . |
| 19 | It is clear that such occasions brought together , often from many countries , knights who were brought up and trained in the same martial traditions . |
| 20 | Draining peatbogs to plant trees releases more carbon dioxide than can ever be taken up and stored by the planted trees , according to a report by Friends of the Earth . |
| 21 | The victim was either nailed or tied to the cross beam by his wrists , before it was hoisted up and fixed into the permanent upright stake of the cross . |
| 22 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 23 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 24 | Strachan took one touch , lined the ball up and struck with the trusty right foot . |
| 25 | When the permanent notes arrive the two sets are joined up and filed in the usual way . |
| 26 | An anxious young face disappeared from the window as their car drew up and parked under the dripping trees , but it was the Brigadier himself who appeared at the door to meet them . |
| 27 | Several thousand species of fish have developed bony connections of some kind to link their swim bladders to the inner ear capsules , so that the vibrations picked up and amplified by the sympathetic resonance of the swim bladder are transmitted to the semicircular canals . |
| 28 | Isabel sat up and concentrated on the small casket he placed beside her . |
| 29 | 'shin " d " encodes past activity , but only in relation to the utterance 's internal system of time referencing which has already been set up and controlled by the deictic references of earlier elements . |
| 30 | His thoughts wandered to the Standard which he had folded up and stuffed into the top drawer of his desk when Mrs Strawson was announced . |