Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human capabilities to reason about complex systems states and the propagation of failure and associated systems are all available within the trained diagnostician , but can break down or fail for a variety of reasons including data overload , incomplete information and fatigue . |
| 2 | One child might easily be taken along or left with a babysitter . |
| 3 | However , it has still to be spelt out , for instance , whether and how an applicant has to prove that an object was legally and lawfully located in or dispatched from a country . |
| 4 | Where a report by us is to be published , it is our policy that important information supplied by the directors , and for which they are responsible , should normally be included in or endorsed by a Board Memorandum . |
| 5 | ‘ ( a ) the name of any person is without sufficient cause entered in or omitted from a company 's register of members , or ( b ) default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member , the person aggrieved or any member of the company , or the company may apply to the court for rectification of the register . ’ |
| 6 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 7 | Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby . |
| 8 | Stop coming in and looking like a gun merchant . ’ |
| 9 | A Heron adviser said yesterday the asset protection measures had been put in place to prevent somebody ‘ charging in and acting in a way that does n't benefit all creditors ’ . |
| 10 | She broke in and radioed for a doctor to certify death , asked other police to tell next of kin — and summoned a funeral director . |
| 11 | The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming . |
| 12 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 13 | Mothers kept their children away from us , and were grateful when we had checked in and gone for a coffee . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what the whole thing about the Pete Cornish involvement for me , ’ continues Bryan , ‘ because I was sick of coming in and plugging into an amp and going , ‘ Oh , how do you get rid of that bloody hum ? ’ |
| 15 | Adding this in and multiplying by a factor of 2 produces the delay for the round trip Earth Venus-Earth : . |
| 16 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 17 | ‘ A monkey came in and perched on a table . |
| 18 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 19 | At the end of the last series , presenter Gordon Burns invited anyone who was interested in taking part to write in and ask for a place — and Paul was among the 8,000 who applied . |
| 20 | And this Mr was so taken aback , by me going in and asking for a job , and they 'd always advertised in the paper before , that he said , Well , she must want work if she 's gone after it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to sit down and rest for a while ? ’ she suggested . |
| 27 | The widow of a security guard who was knocked down and killed during a robbery has appealed for help to track down his killers . |
| 28 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |