Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attack their anti-racist policies would have exposed Labour to ( more ) accusations of racism ; far easier to attack the much less extensive lesbian and gay policies ; and if that meant abandoning lesbians and gays to isolation and intimidation , so be it . |
| 2 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 3 | For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas . |
| 4 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 5 | He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film . |
| 6 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 7 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
| 8 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 9 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 10 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 11 | He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table . |
| 12 | I could prolong the ecstasy as long as I liked , even after he had fallen asleep in my arms and continued sleeping right through my climaxes . |
| 13 | You could pick out individual families : that old Grandma who had fallen asleep in her deckchair , legs apart , showing a formidable pair of bloomers ; the fat baby next to her pushing candy-floss into its chubby face with both hands , trying to find its mouth ; the Dad lying on his back like a stranded whale , great white beer belly rising majestically into the air . |
| 14 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 15 | … My return journey with the soup took twenty minutes ; the soup was cold , and the Empress had fallen asleep in her chair . |
| 16 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 17 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 18 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 19 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 20 | She awoke to a cold , grey morning , feeling stiff and uncomfortable , and uttered a hollow groan as she realised she 'd fallen asleep in her clothes . |
| 21 | Perhaps she 'd fallen asleep in Christopher 's room . |
| 22 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 23 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 24 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 25 | One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child . |
| 26 | Occasionally , flights may be delayed due to circumstances beyond our control . |
| 27 | Delayed due to staff shortages . |
| 28 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 29 | Last week 's launch was delayed due to a ‘ legal technicality ’ , said a DoH spokesman . |
| 30 | Publication of this long-awaited new guide has been delayed due to unforeseen production problems , outwith control of the publishers — the Scottish Mountaineering Trust . |