Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 2 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 3 | Ralph sat in the driving seat of his car , inching slowly forward with the snaking traffic jam stretching along the road . |
| 4 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 5 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 6 | The exceptions , which have some form of developed street network , a more diverse range of buildings and perhaps even a central core , clearly stand out from the pack on current evidence , and they can thus be seen to compare most favourably with the urban patterns recognizable within the major towns and cities of the province . |
| 7 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 8 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 9 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 10 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 11 | I believe that we have fallen badly behind in the three important areas of economic development , social policies and , sadly , the quality of our democracy . |
| 12 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 13 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 14 | As can be seen , it refers most strongly to the physical sense of ’ access ’ , with words like ’ give ’ , ’ right ’ , ’ terrace ’ , ’ trade ’ , ’ route ’ , ’ road ’ & ’ freedom ’ , etc . |
| 15 | It is Jesus 's teaching to his disciples , however , that he refers most frequently to the Old Testament , both by explicit quotations and by innumerable verbal echoes , so that some passages seen like a patch-work of Old Testament words and ideas . |
| 16 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 17 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 18 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 19 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 20 | Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county . |
| 21 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 22 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Kate walked out , and climbed the shallow stairs that led so comfortably to the upper floor . |
| 24 | Childhood memory is however typically family-centred , touching only haphazardly on the unattached . |
| 25 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 26 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 27 | Beyond it lay Nubia , and beyond that the Land of Punt , an almost legendary region which the Egyptians penetrated only briefly in the imperial years of the New Kingdom . |
| 28 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 29 | What we want to do this morning is erm tt talk a little bit to you about er the quality system and the I S O Nine Thousand procedures and er documented er systems , which have been developed so far within the whole group . |
| 30 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |