Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 2 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 3 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 4 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 5 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 6 | Because er in the past people have n't filled in the value of the erm of the work element in in the databases . |
| 7 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 8 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 9 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 10 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 11 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 12 | Paraded down the catwalk by a dancer named Micheline Bernardi this new swimsuit designed by Louis Réard took the world 's breath away . |
| 13 | Stair , turning to see what was happening , was borne away from Neil , who was himself carried down the Haymarket by a shouting throng — the rugger match had triggered off an impromptu riot as well . |
| 14 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 15 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 16 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 17 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 18 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 19 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 20 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 21 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 22 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 23 | In its geographical analysis , the DCS system also picked up a problem with a particular building . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 25 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 26 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 27 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |
| 28 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 29 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 30 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |