Example sentences of "[adv prt] under the strain " in BNC.
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| 1 | His health broke down under the strain of overwork , and he returned to Ortona in 1869 to convalesce . |
| 2 | Of all murders serial killings were the most frustrating , the most difficult and the chanciest to solve , the investigation carried on under the strain of vociferous public demand that the terrifying unknown devil be caught and exorcized for ever . |
| 3 | ( He thinks you 've cracked up under the strain — ask him about his geraniums . ) |
| 4 | Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain . |
| 5 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |