Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 2 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 3 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 4 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 5 | The bridge has fallen in with the Mayor and Corporation on it . |
| 6 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 7 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 8 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 9 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 10 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 11 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 12 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |
| 13 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 14 | Vigilant therefore rammed in alongside the suspect and Bristol ID officer John Cuthbert , assisted by Stephen Pullar and Harry Hampton of Vigilant , made a perilous jump across to the smuggling vessel . |
| 15 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 16 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 17 | This serial number will be filled in by the lexicographers and will represent the order in which the Project Director requires the forms to be actioned . |
| 18 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 19 | I fingered the masterkey in my pouch , brought it out , stuck the ring end into my mouth , clenched on to the shaft and massaged its smooth , hard surface with my tongue . |
| 20 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 21 | They were checked again then carried on over the drawbridge and through the gate . |
| 22 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 24 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 25 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 26 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 27 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 28 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 29 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 30 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |