Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 2 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 3 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 4 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 5 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 6 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 7 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 8 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 9 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 10 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 11 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 12 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 13 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 14 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 15 | The log is filled in every day by protection officers detailing their duties . |
| 16 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 17 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 18 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |
| 19 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 20 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 21 | Before starting the drive and after completing it subjects filled in a questionnaire in which they were required to rate their ability at 12 different standard driving manoeuvres . |
| 22 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 23 | ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 25 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 26 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 27 | Because er in the past people have n't filled in the value of the erm of the work element in in the databases . |
| 28 | However , the trader subsequently filled in the form without having reported back to her and therefore without her authority . |
| 29 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 30 | Kelly died on December 7 but had earlier filled in an appointment for December 8 . |