Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 2 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 3 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 4 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 5 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 6 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 7 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 8 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 9 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 10 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 11 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 12 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 13 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 14 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 15 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 16 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 17 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 18 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 19 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 20 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 21 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 22 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 23 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 24 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 25 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 26 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 27 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 28 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 29 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 30 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |