Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 3 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've decided to go on living here at the farm with Poppa , ’ she was saying . |
| 5 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 6 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 7 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 8 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 9 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 10 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 11 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 12 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
| 13 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 14 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 15 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 16 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 17 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 18 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 19 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 20 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 21 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 22 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 23 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
| 24 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 25 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 26 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 27 | The youth moved in to stay temporarily at the manse but a crisis occurred and he committed suicide . |
| 28 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 29 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 30 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |