Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 2 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 3 | The sun blazed in and lit upon a large , broad-shouldered , shaven-headed man . |
| 4 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 5 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 6 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 7 | At the same time Gwalia House was closed down and replaced by a quaint shop in the historic market town of Shrewsbury . |
| 8 | Two small rooms were made into a large bright lounge and dining room when the partition wall was knocked down and fashioned into a generous arch |
| 9 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 10 | On May 20-22 up to 3,000 squatters in Arak , western Iran , the second largest industrial city , had burnt similar buildings after a boy was run over and killed by a municipal truck . |
| 11 | The solution is to make use to layers to separate out the drawing into smaller sections that can be worked on and redrawn in a reasonable time . |
| 12 | One , that was eventually exported to Mycenae , had been turned upside down , transforming its mouth into a pedestal base , and its original base had been sawn off and replaced with a moulded rim of gilded bronze ; then a pair of wooden handles and a spout were added , completing the transformation of the Egyptian vessel into a Minoan jar . |
| 13 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 14 | Fritz scurried off and returned with a reluctant Paul and they went to the door . |
| 15 | The body was too large to bring on board , so the head was cut off and preserved in a pickling vat aboard the Monongahela . |
| 16 | Children with poor appetites are often put off when faced by a large mound of food on their plates . |
| 17 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 18 | The ‘ lady ’ in question was heavily made up and dressed in a tight sheath of black and gold lurex that ended provocatively at mid-thigh . |
| 19 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 20 | It had been opened up and re-stitched in a different coloured thread . |
| 21 | Steam for 70 min , by the end of which time the pudding will be perfectly puffed up and set with a just-molten streak in the centre . |
| 22 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 23 | Within the southern suburb , many of the 1956–7 structures were apparently disused by the second half of the century , their footings being robbed out or cut by a new ditch alongside Ermine Street . |
| 24 | Some companies have an automatic deletion of all e-mail messages more than three months old with the proviso that any important messages can be taken out and incorporated into a formal , structured system ( for example , a word processing system or individual accounts ) if that message needs to be retained or is a key part of another , more important story . |
| 25 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 26 | For a more formal look , hair was scraped back and softened with a loose fringe section . |
| 27 | He lay there , a saline drip in his arm , his head tilted back and held in a vice-like contraption . |