Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 2 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 3 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 4 | It is very convenient for touching out small rust spots on anything that need reliable , safe treatment ; from garden tools , and wrought ironwork , to toys , bicycles and , of course , cars . |
| 5 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 6 | 17 SUPER Mario 's left hand is known as his Block Bopper to punch his way through walls , and his right foot the Steel-toed Turtle Tromper , for stamping out deadly Koopa Turtles . |
| 7 | Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game . |
| 8 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 9 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 10 | The local branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) had criticized farmers for tearing down traditional terracing and drystone walls on hillside vineyards , in order to increase productivity and allow tractors onto the slopes . |
| 11 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 12 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 13 | They are ideal for stripping off old paint from fixed joinery such as windows and skirtings . |
| 14 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 15 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 16 | SENT-OFF Ipswich keeper Craig Forrest pleaded his innocence after bringing down United striker Adrian Littlejohn outside the penalty area after just two minutes . |
| 17 | Hoult escaped with a caution after bringing down old boy David Kelly on a diagonal run inside the area . |
| 18 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 19 | THE fun-loving niece of tycoon Lord Hanson plunged to her death after knocking back SEVENTEEN tequila slammer cocktails costing just £8.50 . |
| 20 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said Portsmouth faced their first real test after knocking out Third Division Leyton Orient and Exeter . |
| 21 | Wilkes was escorted from the pitch by police after sending off teenage winger Barkus who lashed out after being felled as he went for goal . |
| 22 | Martin Johnson and Vinny Cunningham will play their first matches of the tour after flying out last week as replacements . |
| 23 | Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time . |
| 24 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |
| 25 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 26 | After cutting out other drier , sun-lightened ends , we painted on some strands of High Lift Blonde Tint . |
| 27 | A braindamaged man who lives with his mother near the top of the tenement comes in at eleven o'clock , after sweeping out Seventh Street Pizza . |
| 28 | Mia launched her search for a doggy companion after setting up temporary home in Ireland during the filming of ‘ Widow 's Peak ’ on location . |
| 29 | These were the kids ‘ educated ’ to memorise reams of context-less information in preparation for filling in multiple choice school entrance exams . |
| 30 | The knowledge of a critic is useful here for filling in relevant background information . |