Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 28-year-old was walking along a footpath near Pendleton Road , Darlington , when the was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground . |
| 2 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 3 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 4 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 5 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 6 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 7 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 8 | Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation . |
| 9 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 10 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 11 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 12 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 13 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |
| 14 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 15 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 16 | Attitude questionnaires were also filled in by both experimental and control groups . |
| 17 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 18 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 19 | The momentum carried on until 4am and then tapered off before starting again at a more reasonable hour on Friday morning . |
| 20 | I looked at myself properly and carried on from there . |
| 21 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 22 | Officer education itself is presently carried on by about 140 officer commissioning middle and higher military schools , offering four to five year courses and conferring higher education degrees : fully 13 per cent of all higher education in the USSR is now carried out in the military sector . |
| 23 | Aha , when the pantomime started up that was just carried on in there . |
| 24 | Clearly , clearly , the survey could n't be carried on in very many parts of the sewer because the pipes are in such bad condition . |
| 25 | It has evidently come on since then . |
| 26 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 27 | Pillsbury would have come in with very strong ideas , and I do n't think they would have appreciated that at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 28 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 29 | Now as part of all this , the Centre is responsible for almost all the public lectures in the university , and we have been glad to make the open to the public at large , and therefore a very special welcome to those of you who have come in from outside . |
| 30 | When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world . |