Example sentences of "break [adv prt] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 2 | Every few minutes , he would break off to apologise for his own cynicism . |
| 3 | However , negotiations were broken off owing to the vehement opposition of anti-abortion Republicans , supported by Sununu . |
| 4 | Alternatively , where such territories were too small and scattered , as in many colonised archipelagos , they were combined or broken up according to convenience or local politics . |
| 5 | Forte applications are developed as a single monolithic application and then subsequently partitioned or automatically broken up to run on various computers within the distributed environment . |
| 6 | High on Victoria Peak , it overlooked the city through a faint mist , the sun breaking through to gleam on the skyscrapers and the bay below . |
| 7 | On the same day , 7 May , in Rheims , in the course of surrendering all German forces in Europe , Gen Jodl had claimed that " no force on earth " could stop Gen Loehr 's forces in south-east Europe breaking through to surrender to the British and Americans . |
| 8 | She breaks off to focus on Karen Mulder , a voluptuous streak in skin-tight Alaia , with a dozen red rollers in her blonde hair . |
| 9 | After a frantic few minutes ' chase the skua realises this is n't going to be cost-effective and breaks off to look for something easier . |
| 10 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 11 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 14 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 15 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |
| 16 | Strikes broke out accompanied by bribery and intimidation of blacklegs and the employers combined to resist the " encroachments of the seamen " , attempting to establish an employer dominated union at North Shields . |
| 17 | 1931 and when war broke out flew with |