Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 2 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 3 | Have you filled in the application form I gave you ? ’ |
| 4 | Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company . |
| 5 | Emma Morwood , from Carrickfergus , was travelling on the ferry with her family and filled in the questionnaire given to passengers . |
| 6 | With a team of eminent academics , from Germany , France , Spain , Italy and Britain , an overall editor in the shape of Jean-Baptiste Durosell , former professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne , and the backing of a powerful group of international publishers , he attempted the task of assembling , in one substantial but accessible volume , a distillation of all the elements , chronological , geographical , ethnographic , cultural , philosophical , spiritual , which have blended down the centuries to create the state of ‘ Europeanness ’ . |
| 7 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 8 | He is a natural opener , and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him . |
| 9 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 10 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 11 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 12 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 13 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 14 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 15 | No she 's let out the mainsheet to spill wind and now she 's under control again . |
| 16 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 17 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 18 | The local authority must therefore prove ( 1 ) that notice in accordance with section 10(1) was served on the person having control of the house to execute works , ( 2 ) that he failed within the time specified to execute them , ( 3 ) that the local authority have themselves carried out the works specified in the notice and ( 4 ) that they have incurred expenses in so doing . |
| 19 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 20 | If you have carried out the calculations suggested , you will have found that average spend per head in 1983 was roughly £9.00 , in 1984 £10.50 and in 1985 £11.75 . |
| 21 | In the United States , fear of European embroilment and the pro-Nationalist zeal of many American Catholics effectively cancelled out the sympathy felt in liberal circles towards the Republic . |
| 22 | Lorna Marsh initially turned down the chance to go on the trip when she found out that Bingo The Clown would be joining them . |
| 23 | The multiple rapist , who has turned down the chance to serve his sentence in the safety of a solitary cell , was attacked at Highdown Prison , near Sutton , Surrey , according to a report on Thames Television . |
| 24 | David Pleat has turned down the chance to control his own destiny at crisis-club Luton . |
| 25 | RICHARD Dunwoody has turned down the chance to renew his association with former Champion Kribensis in the Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday . |
| 26 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 27 | FORMER Arsenal winger George Armstrong has turned down the chance to become Malcolm Crosby 's assistant at Sunderland . |
| 28 | DAVE McAULEY , Ireland 's former IBF flyweight champion , has turned down the chance to challenge Welshman Robbie Regan for the European title he won from champion Salvatore Fanni last Saturday . |
| 29 | Sadly , the British Museum , which does not own a plate by the artist , has turned down the opportunity to buy one on grounds of expense . |
| 30 | And then there 's one about the erm a protestant pastor blamed the seventeen year old death , that fellow that , that young man in the video shop that was erm shot down the father blamed the British government . |