Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 18 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 21 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 22 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 26 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 28 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 29 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 30 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |