Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 2 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 3 | ’ Is it something you 'd like to see carried less ? ’ |
| 4 | Constance spent hours drawing imaginary clothes for the mannequins and , encouraged by Miss Hatherby and her mother , made them dresses out of scraps of old material Miss Hatherby managed to find tucked away in the corners of Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 5 | The first category includes consultative documents which are publicly available and , more numerous , invitations to comment made only to interested parties . |
| 6 | They will crack their heads on the low door frame and be forced to stand bent forwards beneath the slope of the ceiling in attitudes of unsuitable humility . |
| 7 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 8 | To the majority of women , the fact that the famous Parisian fashion houses had closed , that silk stockings and imported luxury goods were more expensive and more difficult to obtain meant very little . |
| 9 | This was an example of Highland hospitality I was to find repeated often . |
| 10 | The select committee then went on to recommend very much the same principles as the Fulton Committee wanted to see adopted widely in the civil service . |
| 11 | The government 's much-vaunted desire to consult operated only within those limits . |
| 12 | There was also a struggle for premises : we were meeting in a home which limited growth and every door we tried to open remained tightly shut . |
| 13 | There are no factory-supplied electro-acoustic models , so if you want to go amplified then you 'd have to get a pickup fitted yourself . |
| 14 | By Edward I 's reign ( 1272–1307 ) the continental possessions of his house had shrunk to a fraction of their former vast extent — by 1290 they consisted solely of the duchy of Aquitaine and comté of Ponthieu — but the notion that the Plantagenets had a continental role to play remained firmly embedded in their minds and in those of their subjects on both sides of the Channel . |
| 15 | The parties intended to remain bound even after the independence of Poland . |
| 16 | Lethal as a sliver of glass , he scythed a flying header through a ruck of defenders ' armpits to put United ahead after nine minutes . |
| 17 | The method that restores any position in the most efficient way is called God 's algorithm and seems likely to remain known only to God . |
| 18 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 19 | The local VATman 's refusal to budge clashed directly with the work of Baroness Denton , the government 's small firms minister at the Board of of Trade . |
| 20 | It is acknowledged that other circumstances might exist in which , although aggressive behaviour might be anticipated , joint judgement may be exercises to allow the worker to go supported rather than accompanied . |
| 21 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 22 | His part was to lie hidden here until the main body arrived , and all the household poured out to meet them . |
| 23 | It had hurt almost unbearably earlier , when he had withdrawn from her to lie turned away from her once more , the shoulder he presented to her as eloquent a rejection as his disinclination to touch her . |
| 24 | ‘ An Aching And A Longing ’ , Martyn 's previous album on his own label , has to date sold over 30,000 copies in the UK , proving that it is still possible to achieve success via the traditional workaholic route . |
| 25 | The last to turn settled lightly , not quite flat to its fellows , but then lay still , not a breath left of the wind that had fluttered the pages . |
| 26 | All subjects who had demesne woods within the royal forest were bound to appoint sworn woodwards to keep vert and venison in them . |
| 27 | One is that it is a hollow that can hold extra air , allowing the reptile to remain submerged longer . |
| 28 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 29 | There were demonstrations at Hammersmith ; at Rugby where the most vociferous health worker turned out to be a school caretaker ; at Bristol ; and at Exeter where the demonstrators appeared to have gathered beforehand in the nearby public house . |
| 30 | You , no point in us getting that , you 're room 's not really ready to get painted yet . |