Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 2 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 3 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 4 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 5 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 6 | It is known that he wished to stay in the Government and would have liked to have pressed on with the reform of prisons . |
| 7 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
| 8 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 9 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 10 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 11 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 12 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 13 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 14 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 15 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 16 | Tucked in by the side of the club was a tiny house , reached via a narrow path about three feet wide . |
| 17 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 18 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 19 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 20 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 21 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 22 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 23 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 24 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 25 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 26 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 27 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 28 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 29 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 30 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |