Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to be roasted alive and eaten by the Gruncher . ’ |
| 2 | As spring came , with the supreme optimism of Nature , the shattered trees pushed out a new leaf here and there , but soon these too dropped sick and wilting in the poisonous atmosphere . |
| 3 | In the morning Oliver , who had come late and slept on the couch , started a conversation which suggested he was wavering about leaving the flat . |
| 4 | WEAR AND TEAR — These risks are considered uninsurable and relate to the cost of carrying out maintenance work generally . |
| 5 | This meeting recognises the need for urgency and therefore invites the CLE to make a full report of the result of the independent review in consultation with the CRE by 31st December 1992 , such report to be made public and put before the Bar Council meeting in January 1993 . |
| 6 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 7 | Uppark will first be made weatherproof and opened to the public for six days in November before restoration work begins . |
| 8 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 9 | Cost comparisons showed that a subsea project to handle 50,000 barrels of oil a day might cost £21 million to develop by conventional means but could be built onshore and towed to the location for £17 million . |
| 10 | This may prove liberating for many female art students who have felt isolated and marginalised within the notoriously male dominated space of the fine art department . |
| 11 | The latrines were proclaimed disgusting and abandoned for the privacy of open spaces , and the red bitch continued to lick out the dirty dishes before Mina swilled them cursorily with river water . |
| 12 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 13 | A great Victorian house with remarkable contents will be preserved intact and opened to the public by English Heritage |
| 14 | The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry , leaping flames . |
| 15 | The system is called PAM-Stamp and runs on the RS/6000 . |
| 16 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 17 | This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology . |
| 18 | Maggie lay there on her back , stiff , formal , upon the great silken swirls of her Chinese bedspread , her feet tidily together , her arms spread wide , cruciform , and her rib cage rendered elongated and tortured by the moon shadows . |
| 19 | There 's Martin here was clubbed senseless and slung into the bushes . |
| 20 | He was found guilty and sentenced to the loss of his goods and lands . |
| 21 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 22 | Instinctively they had again swung left and plunged into the familiar shelter of the woods . |
| 23 | Larch and pine logs could be split small and dried by the fire ; or kindling could be gathered " raw " . |
| 24 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |
| 25 | It was said that a massacre had followed the surrender of General Wheeler at Cawnpore and that delicate English girls had been stripped naked and dragged through the streets of Delhi . |
| 26 | When the chosen amplifier has alternative A-B pairs of loudspeaker terminals , the loudspeakers can be left connected and switched via the terminal amplifier A/B selector switch . |
| 27 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 28 | After they had cleared Ushant and started across the Bay of Lyons , the wind veered a point and freshened to a small gale . |
| 29 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 30 | This small working is another of these old mines which was dug open and entered by the writer years ago . |