Example sentences of "[prep] breaking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France 's biggest bank raid , two men held the night security chief and his family at gunpoint for more than 12 hours after breaking into their home at dawn . |
| 2 | A BURGLAR cooked himself a hearty meal after breaking into a fish and chip shop . |
| 3 | Two men held the night security chief and his family at gunpoint for more than 12 hours after breaking into their home . |
| 4 | In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman after breaking into her home , but this was reduced to eight years on appeal . |
| 5 | Thieves have stolen £300-worth of equipment after breaking into a barn in Bakers Lane , Black Notley , used for rearing game birds . |
| 6 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |
| 7 | Burglars have stolen several thousand pounds after breaking into a bank at Rowlands Gill , near Gateshead . |
| 8 | A reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of burglars who escaped with thousands of pounds after breaking into the Alliance and Leicester Building Society in York Road , Hartlepool , between 10pm and 11pm on Saturday . |
| 9 | Thieves escaped with a quantity of cigarettes after breaking into a shop in Cramlington , Northumberland . |
| 10 | Burglars escaped with a £2,500 haul after breaking into a large detached house in Markington , near Ripon , while the occupants were away . |
| 11 | Thieves took a cash register and a quantity of food worth £650 after breaking into a cafe in Zetland Road , Loftus . |
| 12 | Six juveniles were arrested after breaking into Park View garage , at Chilton in which an £800 window was smashed and 12 bags of crisps taken . |
| 13 | The four man gang managed to get away with a £3,000 haul after breaking into Harper and Harper furniture store in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 14 | Thieves made off with about £600 worth of sweets and crisps after breaking into a vehicle parked in Nelson Terrace , Darlington . |
| 15 | Burglars made off with a £350 Marlin cycle after breaking into a house in Wycombe Street , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon . |
| 16 | It was like that feeling you get when the sun first hits you after breaking through the clouds . |
| 17 | Long after breaking with the Campaign Group , Beckett was still offering comradely greetings to its supporters in its party conference newsletter . |
| 18 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 19 | I take a size 13 and have to start searching for my next shoes immediately after breaking in a pair of new ones . |
| 20 | Those in favour of breaking for tea now , please show |
| 21 | James Shelton aged 25 , and George Barnes , aged 23 , two Liverpool constables , with a taxi-cab driver named Charles Wareing , were accused of breaking into the Co-operative Stores in Wavertree Road and stealing a safe containing £146 . |
| 22 | Fortunately ways of breaking into this cycle have begun to be identified ( Mossadeq and Froggatt , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | She 'd made the move to Hollywood with her Dutch artist husband Luc Leestemaker in the hope of breaking into the movie big-time . |
| 24 | Lawyer C was new to the town and aware of both this problem and that of breaking into an established market . |
| 25 | Er do you do you get a lot of breaking into flats ? |
| 26 | We all know widowers and widows who have failed to recover from loss , whose family or friends can find no way of breaking into their misery and sadly , but inevitably , become tired of trying . |
| 27 | The idea of breaking into the Colonel 's den never occurred to me — it was just too plain terrifying . |
| 28 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |
| 29 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 30 | On Jan. 22 , 1990 , Robert Tappan Morris , 24 , a suspended graduate student of Cornell University , was found guilty in Syracuse , New York , of breaking into and jamming a computer network . |