Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 4 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 5 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 6 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 10 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 11 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 12 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 13 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 14 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 15 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |
| 16 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 17 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 18 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 19 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 20 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 21 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 22 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 24 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 25 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 26 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 27 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 28 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 29 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 30 | Emily was curled up in a foetal position , naked , on the floor , sobbing . |