Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 4 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 5 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 6 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 7 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 8 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 9 | The lease was not renewed but the partners carried on under the terms of the existing one . |
| 10 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
| 11 | Politicking carried on within the coalitions during both world wars and the financial crisis , but in a muted , coded and generally responsible way . |
| 12 | The business is now carried on by the sons of the original proprietor who trade under the name of ‘ Joseph Wright & Sons , ’ and employ from six to seven hundred men . |
| 13 | In particular the attention of the court was drawn to clause 1 of the agreement which referred to the practice carried on by the parties as a " practice of general medical practitioners " . |
| 14 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 15 | There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces . |
| 16 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 17 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 18 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 19 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 20 | Slotted in among the books on the review desk was a copy of the Canadian Vintage Aircraft 1992 Calendar . |
| 21 | Fido has been booked in to the kennels down the road and Fluffy has Mrs Jones coming in to feed her — but what about the fish ? |
| 22 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 23 | Slate is marvellous to look at but at a marvellous price , and there is an enormous choice in ceramic tiles which can be mixed in among the terracottas for an ethnic Mexican or Provencale , Italian , Spanish or Portuguese look . |
| 24 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 25 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 26 | TWO student chefs from Darlington College have won through to the finals of a national catering competition . |
| 27 | With partner Jill Clark , she 's won through to the quarter-finals of the Japanese Open after beating the world 's number two pair from Indonesia . |
| 28 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 29 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 30 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |