Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 2 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 3 | Presumably he had in mind — nothing else would have been reconcilable with his profession of non-violence — not so much killing as bravely standing up to be killed , but the position was one he felt constrained to apologize for later . |
| 4 | Oh it 's so quick to go between now is n't it ? |
| 5 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
| 6 | General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc . |
| 7 | Unless there is drastic action based on the Woolf report , rather than the sort of band-aid solution that we have heard about today , I fear that there will be an increase in disturbances , especially if there is yet another unexpected surge in the prison population . |
| 8 | Among the ten African countries for which the appeal was made , there was a mix of hope , on the one hand , hope for progress in Eritrea or Liberia , Mozambique or Ethiopia and on the other hand , countries of despair Somalia that we 've heard about today , or southern Sudan and of course , Angola . |
| 9 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 10 | I have n't heard about any — and you usually do hear . |
| 11 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 12 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
| 13 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 14 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 15 | If personality were irreversibly fixed by particular child-rearing practices the individual would remain for ever at the mercy of specific experiences in his past . |
| 16 | It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved . |
| 17 | Fabia found an answering encouraging smile , but her smile did not remain for long when after a second or two of studying her Cara stated , quite clearly , ‘ You . ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher pledged that the relief would remain for as long as she was Prime Minister and the opposition parties appear unwilling to commit themselves to abolishing it . |
| 19 | Even the good ones might remain for only a matter of months . |
| 20 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 21 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 22 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 23 | A great many human societies operate with " cognatic " systems of kinship , in which common ancestry is traced through both male and female links . |
| 24 | All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy . |
| 25 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 26 | But I do think for now we 're just going to have to cu chop it down . |
| 27 | I reckon he 'll probably come good in time , but we ca n't afford to leave it too long to wait for both him and Deano to start coming up with the goods . |
| 28 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’ |
| 30 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |