Example sentences of "broken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 2 | Where the Indian restaurant was shut with the windows broken on . |
| 3 | Trowark style is large , enveloping and extremely cosy with an almost indestructible quality — one five-year-old jumper seen by The Independent is only just beginning to look ‘ broken in ’ after years of frequent machine washing and hard wear . |
| 4 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 5 | All six horses were broken in , and we felt we knew how intelligent they were from their previous speed of learning new things . |
| 6 | The two stallions who could not even do the test had previously shown themselves to be intelligent by their rapid ability to learn when they were broken in . |
| 7 | So a horse that is roughly bridled may become ‘ head shy ’ and always throw its head when someone tries to put a bit in its mouth ; or a horse that is galled by the saddle when it is initially broken in may always have a ‘ cold back ’ and buck ; and a horse that has its girths thoughtlessly tightened immediately to the top hole may become ‘ girth shy ’ . |
| 8 | Aware that he had broken in , Surkov urged me to go on improvising . |
| 9 | He told police his attacker had broken in by levering beading from a window of his farmhouse . |
| 10 | The neglected appearance of so much crofting land is not a reflection of current under-use , but of too intensive use in the past , when land was put under the plough , or rather the spade , which no one who had freedom of choice would ever have broken in . |
| 11 | After all , she argued , poor Donald could not have protected either of them if burglars had broken in . |
| 12 | Only wise predators can be broken in . |
| 13 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 14 | However , a police spokesman said it seemed nobody had broken in , though children were seen running away . |
| 15 | A police spokeswoman said : ‘ Coming home to find someone has broken in is most people 's worst nightmare . |
| 16 | In essence , the argument advanced runs that the slaves , originally wrenched from their African homelands , had to withstand the ‘ most inhuman conditions ’ during the passage to the Americas and the seasoning period which followed ( when they were ‘ broken in ’ in much the same way as wild horses — with force ) . |
| 17 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 18 | Mrs Ayers is convinced the raiders had seen all the publicity about the bandleader 's death and had broken in , hoping to find money or jewellery . |
| 19 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 20 | I just assumed he was there to get a tooth filled or something , but Andy must have broken in and switched the records then . ’ |
| 21 | And how many times a day is the Act broken in and around Whitehall ? |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 23 | get broken in to . |
| 24 | She felt her face colour , but before she could invent an answer Luke had broken in again . |
| 25 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 26 | Sutherland had said that he was the owner of the house and had received a phone call to say that youngsters had broken in and were vandalising it . |
| 27 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 28 | For when the Carrs have their home broken in to , it 's Officer Davis who supervises the installation of a high-tech security system that would suit the Clintons when they get around to revamping the White House . |
| 29 | And she saying like he 's waiting for his accomplice like and they 've said they 've broken in . |
| 30 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |