Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laid back , bang on and chilled to the gills . |
| 2 | As the date of the exam came nearer , he decided to go somewhere and read by himself . |
| 3 | Faithful , reliable dog provided it is treated properly and trained with firm kindness . |
| 4 | The patient was treated medically and released without further consideration of potential zoonotic disease . |
| 5 | The whole application can be developed locally and split into client/server afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ He decided to carry on and returned to training four weeks ago . |
| 7 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 8 | Others painted professionally and relied on the sale of works of art to earn a living — these included Thomas Davidson , William Trood , Rupert Dent and John T. Rennie Reid . |
| 9 | The furniture came with the smell : soft , shiny , billowy and over-decorated like great banks of flowers ; the little lampshades around the walls were all tassels and fringes , the ornaments were fiddly coloured glass and the not-quite-velvet curtains draped artistically and bound with golden cords . |
| 10 | Paul says he 'd like to go on and run in 12 and 24 hour events . |
| 11 | Sit down and read as if nothing else mattered . |
| 12 | At that moment Mauleverer tottered in and made for the armchair beside the fire . |
| 13 | A modern spacious terminal , situated alongside and integrated to the railway station just inside the main harbour entrance , provides passenger and car booking offices for P&O European Ferries and Sealink British Ferries , a travel centre for Northern Ireland Railways and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board , bookstall , buffet , currency exchange and car hire facilities . |
| 14 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 15 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 16 | Both teams include the same six central works for fortepiano , violin and cello , omitting the unfinished K442 — a ragbag of three probably unrelated movements gathered together and completed by Abbe Maximilian Stadler after Mozart 's death — and the ‘ Kegelstadt ’ Trio for Fortepiano , Clarinet and Viola . |
| 17 | ‘ I also tried to say that our unity was in the future when we believe that all things will be gathered together and completed in Christ and that therefore our policies of today have to reflect our longings for the future . |
| 18 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 19 | Mothers kept their children away from us , and were grateful when we had checked in and gone for a coffee . |
| 20 | She even objected to ‘ new lamps for old ’ — electrification , but eventually , in 1895 , the two saloons were joined together and mounted on one steel under-frame , with six wheel bogies at each end , and electric lights were installed . |
| 21 | Loopholes had already been made in the stone walls of Gemioncourt 's huge barns which , like the buildings of so many of the isolated farms in the low countries , were joined together and protected by a high stone wall , making the whole farm into a massively strong fortress . |
| 22 | They may be made from aluminium , fibreglass or plastic , and can be anything from a simple pair of flexible aluminium or plastic bars to a complicated collection of alloy pieces riveted together and linked to the harness . |
| 23 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 24 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 25 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 26 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 27 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 28 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 29 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 30 | Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell . |