Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The houses should either be knocked down or renovated because this is not good , ’ said resident Ray Smith . |
| 2 | Every six months we 'll send them a statement showing how much they 've paid in and withdrawn and , more importantly , how much interest they 've earned . |
| 3 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 4 | This consists of workers who can be brought in and discharged as and when required or , more usually , without the need to enter into negotiations with trade unions , without being given more than the statutory minimum notice of dismissal , or without being paid more than the statutory minimum redundancy compensation [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 5 | On the day following the night she had spent with the gentle sisters , her father had stormed in and demanded that she return home , and she had replied , ‘ What ! |
| 6 | A MAN suspected of drunken driving was under arrest last night after a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work . |
| 7 | They will be increased if the rate goes down and reduced if the rate goes up . |
| 8 | New Zealands should be brushed off , hosed down and dried before you put them away for the summer . |
| 9 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 10 | A riot in 1694 at Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme is described by George Stovin , who was born the year after the events described : ‘ Whilst the corn was growing , several men , women and children of Belton and among others the said Popplewell 's wife encouraged by him — in a riotous manner pulled down and burnt and laid waste the thorns and destroyed the corn . ’ |
| 11 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 12 | Table tops can also be concealed within a storage wall in much the same way as fold-up beds , so that the leaf can be pulled down when wanted and shut up later to look like a piece of smooth wall . |
| 13 | The hedgehog can not dig itself in when threatened but it can protect its soft parts by rolling up into a tight ball . |
| 14 | Broadly , the parties can choose what liabilities are to be taken over or treated as taken over , although liabilities to employees and liabilities attaching to specific assets pass automatically . |
| 15 | They 're being run over and raped and burnt ; there 's leukemia and meningitis and muscular dystrophy ; it 's all out there waiting to spring , if you 're fool enough to relax . |
| 16 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 17 | The arm can now be lifted off or replaced as required . |
| 18 | The 10 per cent of employees that are temporary or seasonal workers can be laid off or recruited as required , and altering the proportion of output coming from subcontractors causes them in turn to adjust their labour force . |
| 19 | They were concerned the council estate could be cut off if United and Darlington Transport Company had stopped all services because of the speed humps . |
| 20 | Well , we started off as expected but then the pupils started asking : |
| 21 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 22 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 23 | I think if he 's making pronouncements which are being picked up and treated as very important , and they 're only being treated as important because of his position then he should be ba , getting his facts right ! |
| 24 | Partly this is due to better treatment , but the lion 's share of the credit must go to the invention of the smear test , which means that small growths can be picked up and destroyed before they get out of hand . |
| 25 | It was part of the morning routine she 'd adopted , a routine that had her up and dressed before John came through . |
| 26 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 27 | Now she was up and dressed and holding her new best friend 's hand . |
| 28 | Cecilia had closed the window and gone on upstairs to find dear little Tina up and dressed and trying to brush out the tangles in her golden hair . |
| 29 | Thinking of the girl who would probably be up and dressed and waiting for him to go downstairs , Harry frowned uneasily . |
| 30 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |