Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] break [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The class offers tips on what women driving alone should do if their car breaks down and they become stranded . |
| 2 | You should make a will every time your situation changes ; if you get married , if you become a home owner , if you inherit money , or if your relationship breaks up . |
| 3 | So if your relationship breaks down you can not be charged each other 's Poll Tax bills , even if you are still living in the same house . |
| 4 | LOSS OF FOOD IF YOUR FREEZER BREAKS DOWN |
| 5 | EVER thought what would happen if your bike broke down in Donegal , Dingle , or Dorset , let alone much closer to home ? |
| 6 | This gives the fish space in which to set up their own territories and a chance to survive if your system breaks down . |
| 7 | If your car breaks down and you have to leave it for help , try to stick to well-lit areas and do not accept a lift from anyone . |
| 8 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 9 | In December 1990 , Sonia Malhi , who was facing deportation because her marriage broke down , forcing her to leave her home because of domestic violence , heard that her campaign against deportation had been successful . |
| 10 | ‘ On the night your son disappeared Matthew was late getting back from Penzance because his van broke down . ’ |
| 11 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 12 | Teresa Leinen flew back to Britain after her marriage broke down . |
| 13 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 14 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 15 | A former Post Office engineer returned to the South after his marriage broke up . |
| 16 | He is intelligent and articulate , and bitter at the way the years he spent in care have handicapped his chances : ‘ I went into care when my family broke up . |
| 17 | I am dying , she thought , as her forehead broke out into a fine sweat , I do not even have to think of it , my mind is on other things , but there is a disturbance , quite plainly to be felt , in the mechanism of my heart . |
| 18 | The turning point for them came when their car broke down after a family christening . |
| 19 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |
| 20 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 21 | But when her marriage broke down and her husband , a corporal , moved out , she was no longer entitled to live there . |
| 22 | LUNG transplant patient Barbara Easby yesterday praised a council 's same-day service when her heating broke down . |
| 23 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 24 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 25 | Her ordeal finally ended when her car broke down on the A559 , near Cransley Private School in Great Budworth , Northwich . |
| 26 | The family man in his complex tripart personality is still as affable as ever , and his two sons joined him in London when his marriage broke up . |
| 27 | He had been the injured party when his marriage broke up and , in spite of everything , it was all too clear that he still retained strong feelings for the woman he had married . |
| 28 | ‘ I come every year to this festival and really enjoy it , ’ said Mr Brook , who left journalism about eight years ago when his marriage broke up . |
| 29 | Only twenty-two months of the sentence were served , Gandhi being released from prison when his health broke down after an operation for appendicitis . |