Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 2 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 3 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 4 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 5 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 6 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 7 | Roared on by the partisan Swansea crowd , Wales hit back with a brilliant two-try burst in the space of four minutes . |
| 8 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 9 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 10 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 12 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 13 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 14 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 16 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 17 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 18 | As his hand was crushed down onto the red-hot ring again , Connelly 's body jerked convulsively and so savagely that the man holding him up was almost knocked off balance , but he stood his ground while his companion pressed down on the limb . |
| 19 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 20 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 21 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 22 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 23 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 24 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 25 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 26 | LIFESPAN RDBI data transfers can be broken down into the following phases : |
| 27 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 28 | Er and that showed er in fact when we reported to members in July of this year , we were seeking from them er an indication as to the priority of the phasing because prior to that and in fact it 's reflected in the structure plan , we simply have a a scheme for A fifty nine , A sixty one relief roads , they 're not broken down into the two schemes . |
| 29 | Broken down into the different crops , the figures put soft wheat at 75.68m tonnes ( compared with 72.9m tonnes last year ) , followed by barley , 44.6m tonnes ( 45.7m ) ; maize , 27.4m tonnes ( 22m ) ; durum , 9.3m tonnes ( 7.1m ) ; rye , 3.1m tonnes ( 3.3m ) ; oats , 4.4m tonnes ( 4.6m ) ; sorghum , 0.51m tonnes ( 0.45m ) ; and triticale 1.5m tonnes ( 1.1m ) . |
| 30 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |