Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 2 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 3 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 4 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 5 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 6 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 9 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
| 10 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 11 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 13 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 14 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 15 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 16 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 17 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 18 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 19 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 20 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 21 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 22 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 23 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 24 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 25 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 26 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 27 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 28 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 29 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 30 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |