Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 2 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 3 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 4 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 7 | The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent . |
| 8 | The closure problem has come through in the appearance of another function F in the equation for E ; F is related to the Fourier transform of the triple correlation . |
| 9 | THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 10 | Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been . |
| 11 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 12 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 13 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 14 | I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy . |
| 15 | The relentless pace of internationalisation in the economy has speeded up in the 1980s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Meconium is the foal 's faecal material that has built up in the rectum before foaling and sometimes gets quite firm and impacted and must be passed within the first 24-hours of life . |
| 18 | Another slight problem is that when the filters are cleaned , much of the bacteria colony that has built up in the foam could be washed away . |
| 19 | Spring-cleaning , repainting and clearing out cupboards can all be good ways of dispelling any unpleasant or heavy atmosphere that has built up in the home . |
| 20 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 21 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 22 | She noted , however , that cotenine , a substance that the body can break down only from nicotine , has turned up in the semen of smokers . |
| 23 | The chemical , which is about 150 times as toxic as cyanide , has turned up in the soil and in waters that flow into the Mississippi River at levels up to several hundred times those thought to be safe . |
| 24 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 25 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
| 26 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |
| 27 | An encouraging aspect of the Rossini celebration is the wider view of his art which has opened up in the past quarter of a century . |
| 28 | For most of the past decade at least one major thoroughfare in the city centre has been shut to traffic while workmen repair a large hole that has opened up in the tarmac after the collapse of one of the old brick sewers beneath . |
| 29 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 30 | In the borders , there 's some in , in England but er that , that family has died out in the borders . |