Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 2 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 3 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 4 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 5 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 6 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 7 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 8 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 9 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 10 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 11 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 12 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 13 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 16 | Yo , for your own information , as th , say health and safety group , in terms of people who ha , who undertake vision screening and then get referred on from a , for a full full eye tests it 's usually around |
| 17 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 18 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 19 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 20 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 21 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 22 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 23 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 24 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 26 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 27 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 29 | As thousands of refugees prepare for winter , our reporter Kim Barnes has flown in with a plane-load of desperately-needed warm clothing , to see at first hand the work being done to help . |
| 30 | Formed in as a three-piece , they now have four members in their ranks and play music which has been described as a cross between Sonic Youth and Stiff Little Fingers . |