Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 2 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 3 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 4 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 5 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 6 | Military ordered came from as far afield as India , Malaysia , Africa and , of course , Canada . |
| 7 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 8 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 9 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 10 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |
| 11 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , now you have rung , get in here as quickly as you can . |
| 13 | The idea of marriage into the royal house of France had been openly raised at least as early as September 1543 , and presumably had been in the mind of Mary of Guise long before that . |
| 14 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 15 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 16 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 17 | There is no example of this in the Karg-Elert example , but it will be dealt with more thoroughly later when we discuss the style of free diatonicism . |
| 18 | Many came from within North America itself , but others concentrated from as far afield as South Africa , Australia and China . |
| 19 | The other day a woman rang from as far away as — ’ Ashley stopped , aware of chattering again . |
| 20 | The Theatre 's annual panto has become something of a cult , with people coming from as far away as Amsterdam and Geneva to see this year 's ’ Mother Goose . ’ |
| 21 | We 'll have 3,100 pints on tap at the event for the expected 1,000 visitors , some of whom are coming from as far away as Belgium . |
| 22 | Some are coming from as far afield as Germany , so today , despite abysmal flying conditions , they all went up for a rehearsal . |
| 23 | As they ate , the students sat cross-legged on carpets brought from as far away as Shiraz , Damascus and the Yemen . |
| 24 | Training Days — taken by Hilary Weedon and Ann Langford — have been well attended , some enthusiastic participants travelling from as far away as 60 miles . |
| 25 | But one Tory source said : ‘ We think we could accommodate the Unionists if we needed to far more easily than the Liberal Democrats . ’ |
| 26 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 27 | Context is relied on much more often than in English or Bali to establish time reference . |
| 28 | All Hallows cross-country teams entered the national cross country championships at Marple Hall School last month , when more than 40 schools were represented from as far afield as Newcastle and Coventry . |
| 29 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 30 | While diesel cars will never be seen as road burners , they will go at least as fast as the ‘ cooking ’ versions of ordinary petrol-powered saloons and hatchbacks . |