Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 2 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 3 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 4 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 5 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 6 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 7 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 8 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 9 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 10 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 11 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 12 | A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly onto your eyes . |
| 13 | The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates . |
| 14 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 15 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 16 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 17 | 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover . |
| 18 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 19 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 20 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 21 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 22 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 23 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 24 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 25 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 26 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 27 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 28 | The local water also contained just the right quantity of lime for the production of ‘ sheened ’ washed silk . |
| 29 | In Ancient Egypt , pig footprints were considered just the right depth for sowing corn , and at planting time , the farmer would walk behind a pig , dropping seeds in the impressions . |
| 30 | The police decided that the murderer had carried away the other half . |