Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 3 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 4 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 5 | I have rarely heard him sound more relaxed . |
| 6 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 7 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 8 | They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself . |
| 9 | I have very successfully manipulated you here and I am keeping you here . |
| 10 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 11 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 12 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 13 | Guessing , of course , but I think the speed of the reply to the second message showed how badly shaken they were . |
| 14 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 15 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 16 | Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands . |
| 17 | No matter how badly designed it is , it 's a thousand times better than what was here before . |
| 18 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 19 | When Katie was eventually discharged she was seriously and permanently disabled — one of a catalogue of similar horrifying incidents , said Mr Goldring . |
| 20 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 21 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 22 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 23 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 24 | Well he 's so badly parked you see , he 's got to wait for both traffics to go whereas I could go easily |
| 25 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 26 | A sideways knitted jumper can be decorated with woven stripes and if these are widely spaced it is possible to use just one ball of fancy weaving yarn . |
| 27 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 28 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 29 | Hence there would be no fall in real output — the government would have successfully stabilized it . |
| 30 | ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me . |