Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unlikely therefore that this idea would be dusted off and applied to German city neighbourhoods without considerable modification . |
| 2 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 3 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 4 | But before you can say femme fatale , poor old Singapore Sling has been captured , tied up and subjected to all manner of indignities by the unhinged pair . |
| 5 | And there he was he was held up and shown to passing motorists . |
| 6 | In both cases the greater stability and permanency of the labour force encouraged farmers to build more tied cottages in order to ensure a supply of labour — and the significance of tied cottages was further increased by estates being broken up and sold to sitting tenants , a change which also brought about a decline in the number of closed villages . |
| 7 | Rods were set up and attached to gaudy plastic lures which were trolled some distance behind the boat . |
| 8 | The back seat , its padding springing from the slashed plastic , had been ripped out and hurled to one side . |
| 9 | Michele was sitting in one of the armchairs , head back and tilted to one side . |