Example sentences of "a [vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 2 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 3 | The LTA seems to have a Rolls Royce body with a clapped out engine that is in urgent need of replacement having failed its MOT ( Members Observation Test ) . |
| 4 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes he 's like a grown up man , sometimes like a teenager , ’ said Srdjan of his son 's passionate nature . |
| 6 | And so we had a proper argument about this , of course he was a grown up man , I were only a kid you know . |
| 7 | I know I 've never seen a grown up ragger actually , they always go no man look at the chief on that |
| 8 | Nylon is made waterproof during the weaving process using a high temperature/oven baking method which can not be repeated on a made up tent . |
| 9 | The women deserve a right to have a proper training , not a watered down version . |
| 10 | Travel less than half-a-mile in a built up area without finding a fast food restaurant — yet travel west for 600 miles and not see anything but grass . |
| 11 | This is a built up area int it ? |
| 12 | But that do n't make it , and it 's it 's still a built up area . |
| 13 | well you 're gon na learn them , cos you 've got , they , they ask you straight away that a built up area |
| 14 | what 's the speed limit for a built up area ? |
| 15 | Well it really was so different from a built up place but er um , when , but the day that we came in it was mm , pouring with rain everywhere was muddy and er of course , i i there were only erm one part of this town this area , rather that had been occupied because all the other parts were all fields . |
| 16 | Their middle and top of the range boots were obviously a cross between a ski boot and a walking boot , designed to give a better fit , stability , and support , and some models even had a built in gaiter . |
| 17 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 18 | A model with 4Mb of RAM , a 120Mb hard disk , Windows 3.1 and a built in trackball costs £1,695 . |
| 19 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 20 | An equity-based pension scheme with a built in protection against inflation has been launched by Legal & General , offering investors the benefits of increases in the FTSE 100 or the changes in the Retail Price Index whichever is the greater . |
| 21 | All hardcards come with a built in controller and software . |
| 22 | While a simple one-off party can be a rewarding subject for video , Christmas parties , and in particular children 's Christmas parties , offer even greater scope for creative video because they take place within the context of a whole season of festivity which has a built in story of its own . |
| 23 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 24 | the building authority anywhere in the U K , even in Scotland and Northern Ireland , will require you to have a built in smoke detector system , mains with battery . |
| 25 | Flush fitting sides mean you get the look of a built in cooker is so desired . |
| 26 | I thought it was a built in egg timer or something . |
| 27 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 28 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 29 | Help has come partly from donations , but cash for a resistance movement in a drawn out conflict could come from the Kuwait investment office ; it has a hundred billion dollars in foreign assets . |
| 30 | Not like a drawn out television programme , you know ? |