Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes were on the way ; but not because the British government or the Governor initiated them , Dorman-Smith and Knight had managed to stone-wall for almost a year ; largely because Bogyoke was occupied in building up his power base . |
| 2 | This is not knitted in but is quickly added in making up . |
| 3 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 4 | If you see an ad which makes you really stop and take notice , someone has succeeded in getting through to you . |
| 5 | I do not think that we have yet succeeded in taking in fully what quantum mechanical non-locality implies about the nature of the world . |
| 6 | More cavalry poured in , from the fields and woods , orchards and farmyards and side-roads , to flood the village centre and drive the surviving enemy skirmishers back down the slope to the river , where most succeeded in wading across to half-frozen safety . |
| 7 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 8 | However , Conventions , even ones backed by most of the nations of the world , have never totally succeeded in stamping out illegal trading in lucrative contraband . |
| 9 | Borders Regional Council has sought to listen and to respond to its electorate and has succeeded in drawing up a document that is widely supported in the area . |
| 10 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 11 | These succeeded in bringing out the noble , Edwardian character of the music ; but failed to convey adequately its restless , questioning and sometimes despairing elements — as Elgar 's performances did so clearly . |
| 12 | Some of the programmes developed have succeeded in removing up to 98 per cent of the solids content of waste water . |
| 13 | Though the facilities exist for the storage of reports in digital form for access using text retrieval software , the numerous departments throughout the authority have never succeeded in handing in their committee reports in a satisfactory form . |
| 14 | According to the squadron report , their operations succeeded in blowing up , among others , the Dijon-Beaune line seven times , the Dijon-Paris line twice and the Nevers-Autun track four times . |
| 15 | In reality , Croats and Serbs would have succeeded in carving up Bosnia between them . |
| 16 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 17 | Both sons seem to have succeeded in carrying out their father 's orders . |
| 18 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 19 | Worried by the reforms made by his predecessor Lionel Jospin , those directly affected fear any tendency towards publicity seeking by a ‘ Minister of Cultural Education ’ who , it seems , has not yet succeeded in shaking off his image as a lightweight . |
| 20 | Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently . |
| 21 | When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall . |
| 22 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 23 | The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed . |
| 24 | Through their hold over the nine main lines fanning out from Moscow to all points of the compass they had succeeded in cutting off one White force from another in the Civil War . |
| 25 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 26 | It is alleged that one British collector had 4000 trees felled in tracking down one particularly rare species in Colombia . |
| 27 | All too often , says Hooks , Black feminists fail to critically challenge the flawed assumption that the survival of Black people ’ depends on creating a cultural climate in which Black men can achieve manhood within paradigms constructed by white patriarchy ’ Those are just two examples of the powerfully pungent analyses contained in Talking Back . |
| 28 | It may , however , be applied in paying up bonus shares ( s170(4) ) . |
| 29 | ( c ) the reserve ( of the same amount because the share capital is cancelled ) created by the reduction of share capital being capitalised and applied in paying up new shares in the target which are issued to the bidder . |
| 30 | One or two looked questioningly at Cameron but he was absorbed in thinking up phrases . |