Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] an open " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 2 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 3 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 4 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 5 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 6 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 7 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 8 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 9 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |
| 10 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 11 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 12 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 13 | And when you have to walk out across an open room , and everybody 's watching , you start to mice . |
| 14 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 15 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 16 | You creep along to an open doorway . |
| 17 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 18 | For the rest , if it does blow up into an open accusation , he 'll have to come clean . |
| 19 | Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar . |
| 20 | Most people provide small items set out on an open plan system , which gives the children a great deal of choice . |
| 21 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 22 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 23 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 24 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 25 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 26 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 27 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 28 | In the fullerene-road mechanism , the metal ion would have to be taken up on an open cluster early on during growth , and the fullerene shell would then have to grow around the metal . |
| 29 | The unsuspecting victim was horrified when a ‘ corpse ’ leaned out of an open coffin to ask him for a takeaway pizza . |
| 30 | Every spare moment of John Drake 's time is devoted to the two-acre garden he has carved out in an open and exposed part of the Fens near Cambridge . |