Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 2 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 3 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 4 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 5 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 6 | The log is filled in every day by protection officers detailing their duties . |
| 7 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 8 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 9 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 10 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 13 | Kelly died on December 7 but had earlier filled in an appointment for December 8 . |
| 14 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 15 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 16 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 17 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 18 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 19 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 20 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 22 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 23 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 24 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 25 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 26 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 28 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 29 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 30 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |