Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 2 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 3 | So if I 'm late for work one day , you 'll know why , I 've probably fallen down a hole somewhere . |
| 4 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 5 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 6 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 7 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 8 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 9 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 10 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 11 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 12 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 13 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 14 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 15 | ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . ) |
| 16 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 17 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |
| 18 | If they have filled in a card , declaring willing for a dealer to approach them with urgent share recommendations , they are not being cold-called if subsequently telephoned . |
| 19 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 20 | When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap . |
| 21 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 22 | Tracey and her supervisor together with Mrs Brown have already filled in a Care Plan Assessment Form . |
| 23 | Thus 500 women filled in a questionnaire and had anthropometric measurements taken at intake . |
| 24 | Before starting the drive and after completing it subjects filled in a questionnaire in which they were required to rate their ability at 12 different standard driving manoeuvres . |
| 25 | And filled in a registration form that could be checked on . |
| 26 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 27 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 28 | This was also carried on a division ; the Government accepted their defeat and did not seek to reverse the decision . |
| 29 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 30 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |