Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 2 | ‘ We just do n't want young people to be brought in and charged with this , ’ he said . |
| 3 | For a moment he thought about going in and fumbled in one of his pockets for some change , but he decided against it . |
| 4 | He reeled in and prepared for another cast , seeming absorbed by his task . |
| 5 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 6 | The complete word is taken in and segmented into individual characters or strokes ( e.g. ( Higgins & Whitrow , 1984 ) , ( Wright , 1989 ) ) . |
| 7 | By Bronze Age times the ‘ green man ’ — Green Jack , or Hooded Robin , the medieval ‘ wodehouse ’ — had become a solitary forest figure , partially deified , reflected in and mingled with such elemental forms as Pan , and Dionysus , and vaguely remembered dryads . |
| 8 | She had gone in and looked at that picture and come running down the stairs crying , with her hands up to her face and the tears pouring . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it offered only a static picture of the corporate executive and fails to visualize him as caught in and conditioned by organizational processes of career advancement . |
| 10 | Rotas for house cleaning , loo disinfecting , washing up , cooker cleaning and decisions about kitty and shopping for basic shared commodities such as tea , coffee , loo paper , need to be clearly written down and displayed for all to see . |
| 11 | The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind . |
| 12 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 13 | The inner flesh was as raw as a recent wound , and clear resin had oozed to the surface , trickled down and set into sticky pink runnels . |
| 14 | Most importantly , when a metal artefact is damaged or becomes redundant , the metal can easily be melted down and recycled into another artefact . |
| 15 | No. 16 , which because of the poor condition of its body , had already been re-pillared with five windows , was sent to Hendon in August or September 1928 , stripped right down and rebuilt with flush sides , two and one reversible cushioned seats inside and a number of other improvements . |
| 16 | and erm and erm I would really formally ask the board if , if there is any objection to our deliberations being recorded and taken down and used for another purpose . |
| 17 | In the distance , Panton 's Brewery , closed down and demolished in 1893 . |
| 18 | But such distortions are , at least partly , social in origin ; the mechanism of superstition as Bacon describes it , involves a tendency to accept those propositions that have been laid down and established through social recognition and approval . |
| 19 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 20 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |
| 21 | Ah , but the district council had caused letter boxed to be melted down and fashioned into stainless steel tree holders , at a great deal too much extra cost , and these were positioned at every dog-relief point so the housewives could be held in suspension at any point in the area and time . |
| 22 | In the absence of consensus , government has to be bold enough to propose its own answers , and these must be seen to incorporate an underlying principle , carried through and exemplified in all of the stages of education from primary to tertiary . |
| 23 | I caught all through and finished with 7 lb 4oz but that was no match for Paul who took 9 lb 12 oz to the scales . |
| 24 | One side of his immaculate jacket was soaked through and spiked with broken glass . |
| 25 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 26 | We would really like to see this thing over and done with one way or another , and to be able to put our case . |
| 27 | It was that very feeling that all was unlikely , that anything likely was over and done with like last year 's cricket match , which was most frightening . |
| 28 | A major factor that has contributed to this has been the process of acquisition , by which firms get taken over and merged into larger companies . |
| 29 | The ceiling in the old kitchen was painted dark grey and etched with circles , some enclosing helixes and geometric foliate forms , while the fireplaces were surrounded by brickwork , itself painted over and ornamented in all kinds of ways . |
| 30 | He took two wickets in his first over and finished with five for 68 bowling at the end which offered encouraging lift . |