Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 2 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 3 | There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces . |
| 4 | Good estate management should result in the landlord maintaining an even balance of trades but the following clause is nevertheless prudent : Not to permit or suffer any [ adjoining or neighbouring premises in the ownership or control of the Landlord ] [ other premises in the Centre ] to be used for the business from time to time being carried on in the Premises |
| 5 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 6 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 7 | The unit can include as many net-armed and as many club-armed Night Goblins as you wish , and they can be mixed up in the ranks as you please . |
| 8 | The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser . |
| 9 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
| 10 | And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I |
| 11 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 12 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 13 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 14 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 15 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 16 | In a moment we were in mid-stream , caught up in the arms of the river . |
| 17 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 18 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 19 | Caught up in the swathes of colour and movement are the small objects we adopt and discard in our life-long struggle to define ourselves — objects and images mass produced , touched with personal desire — cherished and abandoned … ’ |
| 20 | Rose too was caught up in the preparations . |
| 21 | Did it get caught up in the branches ? ’ |
| 22 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 23 | The row has brought many French roads to a standstill — and hit the pockets of British Hauliers caught up in the jams . |
| 24 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 25 | As the day of the wedding drew closer , the young Campbell lass found herself caught up in the arrangements . |
| 26 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 27 | MANTES , caught up in the coils of the Seine in northern France , has a rich history and is proud of its association with the great Impressionist painters . |
| 28 | Patrick Swayze is a doc with oedipal jitters who goes to India to find himself , only to get caught up in the struggles of the native people earning a crust on the heaving streets of Calcutta . |
| 29 | When Webern conducted student concerts I often found myself caught up in the riots . |
| 30 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |