Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 2 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 3 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 4 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 5 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 6 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 7 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 8 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 9 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 10 | Filled in a new rent rebate form . |
| 11 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co–operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 13 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co-operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 14 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 15 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 16 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 17 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 18 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 19 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 20 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 21 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 22 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 23 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 25 | The video formed a central part of the event , then staff filled in an extensive questionnaire on working practices and an attitude survey . |
| 26 | By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister . |
| 27 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 28 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 29 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 30 | By the early nineteenth century three ‘ large carrying establishments ’ had made their headquarters here , of which Sutton & Co. carried on a great trade with Hull and Gainsborough , Liverpool and Manchester , the Cheshire salt works and the Potteries , and with Birmingham , Dudley and the Black Country . |