Example sentences of "[vb pp] open " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Did n't you say her handbag had been torn open , the contents gone except for the photo in a zipped pocket ? ’ |
| 3 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 4 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 5 | Don Roscoe had his arm torn open by the razor beak of one such bird . |
| 6 | A chintz-covered settee had been upended , the lining torn open . |
| 7 | She had been torn open . |
| 8 | The BMW went first , its roof torn open by the flames and blast as if by a giant unseen can opener . |
| 9 | His trousers were still on , but the zip had been torn open , and there were few parts of his body tha– were not covered in bruises . |
| 10 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |
| 11 | Several residents have reported that their milk bottles have been torn open by birds . |
| 12 | The INSTALL LIST command that you executed at the beginning of Appendix D will show you whether they are installed OPEN and SHARED . |
| 13 | Note however , that you must ensure they are installed OPEN and SHARED on re-boot ; refer to Section 1.5.1 , SYSTARTUP.COM , for details . |
| 14 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 15 | His mouth just dropped open ! ’ |
| 16 | Elinor 's mouth had dropped open . |
| 17 | My mouth must have dropped open . |
| 18 | As he listened , Dorcas 's mouth slowly dropped open . |
| 19 | Shiona was unaware that her jaw had dropped open . |
| 20 | Those signs have included Open University distance-teaching approaches , the development of modular courses in the North West of England and the school-based element of courses funded by the DES under its Circular 3/83 and subsequent arrangements . |
| 21 | The doors had come open and there was a voice on a public address system shouting something . |
| 22 | Two cement graves had been smashed open , apparently several decades earlier . |
| 23 | ‘ The head was smashed open and the face badly bruised . |
| 24 | A shopkeeper whose premises have been smashed open by ramraiders twice in three weeks says his local council have stopped him installing protective security shutters . |
| 25 | With Team 1 first Team 2 second and Ralph , Carter and Joseph in third the glass doors were smashed open . |
| 26 | Rain gusts at the kitchen window and the outer door , its wood swollen by damp , has to be wrenched open . |
| 27 | The door at the end of the hallway was wrenched open with a ‘ crash ’ and Delphinia MacKenzie , her hands white with flour , pounded down the carpet with as much grace and haste as her station in life and her stays would allow . |
| 28 | The door was wrenched open , the messenger hit on the head with a cosh , and the money taken . ’ |
| 29 | His jaws have been wrenched open , like everyone else 's , and the tranquillizers crammed in — a Siamese cat , a few books and records , an eighteen-year-old girl with wild hair and intent lips slightly parted … |
| 30 | ‘ After many months had passed , ’ said Raynor , ‘ they say that the chasm was wrenched open from within , and the gaping hole appeared in the sky over the Forest of Darkness . |