Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 2 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 3 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 4 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 5 | Tapes cut in and overlaid the unearthly siren-call of the electro-acoustic instrument , and Minerva 's cello answered the melodic tonality with a delicately offhand echo . |
| 6 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 7 | Mr Kerr had stepped in and overpowered the accused , who then had pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly . |
| 8 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 9 | Wordsworth had lived in and loved the Lakes for sixty years , and later Ruskin , the great architectural influence of the nineteenth century , built a house on Lake Coniston . |
| 10 | I had the sales force who called in and done a demonstration in a person 's home . |
| 11 | I just assumed he was there to get a tooth filled or something , but Andy must have broken in and switched the records then . ’ |
| 12 | All the shopkeepers there have chipped in and hired a promo agency to drum up Christmas trade . |
| 13 | Finally his double-barrelled family had stepped in and bought the prodigal a mega-mineral cure and a penthouse flat . |
| 14 | So she had stayed in and got the dinner prepared early , she could just shove it in the oven and it would look after itself . |
| 15 | But he added : ‘ The players who 've enjoyed the biggest success abroad have been those who 've blended in and learned the language . ’ |
| 16 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
| 17 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 18 | ( The same year , Wayne had acted in and directed the gung-ho Green Berets , which supported US military involvement in Vietnam . ) |
| 19 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 20 | Dr Watson has worked in and watched the region for 40 years , and his opinions carry great weight . |
| 21 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |
| 22 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 23 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |
| 24 | Erm it 's tha then getting towards and she 's gone down and done the horses he sh he said it 's then getting to Harriet 's bed time so she baths her all sorts her out and he said well she does work hard , he said and by the end of that she she wo n't be able to do anything else ! |
| 25 | We were in a perfect position to attack the mountain from its north side once we had dropped down and crossed the river . |
| 26 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 27 | Mascot diet : Organisers of Atlanta 's 1996 Olympics said their mascot a shapeless smiling blob known as Whatizit would be slimmed down and given a proper male name to broaden its appeal . |
| 28 | And with that she took two of Granny 's pennies from her pocket , put her fingers on Granny 's eyes to push her eyelids down and placed a penny over each eye . |
| 29 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 30 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |