Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 2 | As an immediate corollary we obtain a result you might have stumbled on in your researches into Problem 3 . |
| 3 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 4 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 5 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 6 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Though his proposals were whittled down in Congress , the Revenue Act of 1921 and later measures provided for big tax cuts on high personal incomes and the removal of the excess profit tax . |
| 8 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 9 | The items between the top of the partition and the gap formed by the moving of the instance are shuffled down in order to remove the gap . |
| 10 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 11 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 12 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 13 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 14 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 15 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 16 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 17 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 18 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 19 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 20 | Something had broken down in them . |
| 21 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 22 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 23 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 24 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 25 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 26 | Broken down in your liver , and your liver has to do work . |
| 27 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 28 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 29 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 30 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |