Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] clean " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 14 , the remaining refugees , numbering about 2,000 , having been given clean clothes and food , and told , in an apparent change of heart by Italy , that they could stay while their cases were examined , were taken in small groups to reception centres in distant parts of the country . |
| 2 | The tip had been picked clean . |
| 3 | If gazing could gobble you up , she 'd have been picked clean . |
| 4 | It had happened before that England had been sluiced clean of every significant esoteric and thaumaturgist . |
| 5 | RIGHT It is essential that excavated finds are washed clean and their context number marked on them with waterproof ink . |
| 6 | There were some dry stains of blood , although the room had been washed clean . |
| 7 | Thirty years from now the words will have been wiped clean by the sun and sea that inspired them . |
| 8 | Financially the slate had been wiped clean . |
| 9 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 10 | the other has been wiped clean . ’ |
| 11 | The letters of the machine used for it had been brushed clean and the worn ribbon replaced at some time after the letter was typed , but all the other characteristics including misalignment of the ‘ d ’ and the unreliable shift control — had shown up in the enlargement and eventually confirmed that Wickham had found the machine he was seeking . |
| 12 | ‘ A piece of wood had been driven clean through the heart , apparently after death . ’ |
| 13 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 15 | Here it could be wedged among the reeds , and would eventually be picked clean . |
| 16 | When stationed at Mhow in Central India , his camp was right next to the sacred site where the Parsee sect left bodies to be picked clean by vultures . |
| 17 | Quite decent things , hopelessly botched , needing to be made clean again . |
| 18 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 19 | I 'm made clean ! |
| 20 | The parts should then be rinsed clean in the soaking solution and then in clean hot water before reassembling . |
| 21 | Then the paper will be washed clean with running water ; and , if a proper job is to be made of it , resized and even retoned . |
| 22 | Once dry , the paints become insoluble in water — the surface of the thoroughly dry painting can even be washed clean with soap and water , without harm . |
| 23 | Embryo transfer is potentially the safest way of introducing new blood-lines , though even this is not entirely safe ; the outside of a goat embryo resembles a rolled up hedgehog and can not be washed clean ! |
| 24 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 25 | Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps . |
| 26 | It 's made from a hardwearing fabric and can be wiped clean from the trials and tribulations inflicted on it by the rough and tumble of everyday use . |
| 27 | That he would atone for it and so the slate would be wiped clean . |
| 28 | Information kept on a credit card would be wiped clean by the massive bursts of magnetism given off by the scanner . |
| 29 | It has the difference , if there is the implication , that in many perhaps in most cases of AIDS , it could have been avoided by , what used to be called clean living . |
| 30 | They had to be filed clean . |