Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 2 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 3 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 4 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 5 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 6 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 7 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 8 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 9 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 10 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 11 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 12 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 13 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 14 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 15 | Some 1 500 periodicals are currently taken ; these reflect the wide range of scientific activity carried on in the Garden . |
| 16 | Another important industrial activity carried on in the neighbourhood was the extraction of salt from sea water . |
| 17 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 18 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 19 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 20 | We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out ! |
| 21 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 22 | You know , I think we 've that nobody keeps us We 've had a name over the years that we 're an expensive carrier , and it 's just sort of keep going and educating them that we 've come down in the market or , |
| 23 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 24 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 25 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 26 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 27 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 28 | The only problem is whether everything is going to get sucked down in the process . |
| 29 | The basic question at issue in the debate is whether the United Kingdom is to be carried along in the wake of those changes or to be a driving force for change . |
| 30 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |