Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 2 | Filled in a new rent rebate form . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 7 | The video formed a central part of the event , then staff filled in an extensive questionnaire on working practices and an attitude survey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 12 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 13 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 14 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 15 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 16 | I mean Simon Greyson is not not picking up here neither is Colin Hill and really it 's come on a little bit sudden but that was totally unnecessary as well . |
| 17 | She threw the words at him , then sucked in a shuddering breath , dashing a hand across her wet cheeks . |
| 18 | On the back of each barrack room door was a plan of how our lockers should look : trousers , shirts , socks , pants , vests and everything else had to be sucked in a certain order , and folded exactly thirty-five centimetres square . |
| 19 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 20 | Being let down an Italian well , by a crowd of villagers . |
| 21 | Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time . |
| 22 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 23 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
| 24 | it 's come up a wee bit . |
| 25 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 26 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 27 | From then on , as though that had conjured up a bleak picture of him never having a life with his love , he began to sound quite despairing . |
| 28 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 29 | Lisa 's story had conjured up an arresting image . |
| 30 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |