Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ‘ be alive ’ as opposed to ‘ being dead ’ ; or you can do your best to live life to the full — putting in and getting out as much as possible . |
| 2 | We bring you the results as they come in and find out how local services maybe affected . |
| 3 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 4 | ‘ If we were n't tied to this bit of the country , I 'd almost think about chucking it all in and heading off somewhere different — Canada , or Australia , or South Africa . ’ |
| 5 | down and worked out how many days he 's had the long wheelbase this week . |
| 6 | The rising cost of living affects horses as well as humans , and if you dare to sit down and work out how much you spend even on the basics you will probably be horrified . |
| 7 | Are we gon na go away and work out how much it is ? |
| 8 | Segments of DNA can make extra copies of themselves which then move off and re-insert on completely different chromosomes . |
| 9 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 10 | A public fuss about sovereignty , the government reckons , might inflame feelings even more and touch off really ugly incidents , maybe bloodshed , in an area already smarting from the harsher side of unity , collapsing firms and soaring unemployment . |
| 11 | The refrigerator has been built into the peninsula unit and has a three-star , deep-freeze section , defrosts automatically and uses up very little energy . |
| 12 | Put in the rennet , measuring it carefully and remembering about too much making a tough and acid curd ; stir it well into the milk . |
| 13 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 14 | The station could be up and running by about 1994 . |
| 15 | Fool-proof , says Proteon : the most complex part is configuring the DNX 300 router , which the company claims anyone can get up and running in under 15 minutes . |
| 16 | twelfths is a good one quite often and then we 'll add up and find out how many twelfths we 've got . |
| 17 | A basic address book can be up and working in under half an hour . |
| 18 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 19 | If I switch off and wait about three minutes , she 'll fire up perfectly and carry on sometimes ten miles further , sometimes fifty until the problem starts again . |
| 20 | But he was still not suffering from his hypmaniacal attack — he now believed the Mafia were after him — and when the ambulance stopped at Tottenham Court Road , a quarter of a mile away , he leapt out and set off again naked down the street . |
| 21 | He had stopped his pacing now and sat down again opposite to her . |
| 22 | Please take the time to return the coupon today and find out how easy it is to give yourself and your family the peace of mind and protection of HSA SuperPlan . |
| 23 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ Leave the belt here and head back around eleven-thirty . |
| 25 | Top seed Peter Hayden forget to put his clock forward and turned up too late for his first round match , in an unhappy day for the seeds . |
| 26 | Oh yes yes oh well yes for a rum and coffee yeah , and I 'm afraid it was very acceptable on a winter 's morning , but erm now we come , we 've come on that side of Road , we 'll now start at the top of Road again and come along as far as er what I call Street I believe it 's now where St Michael 's church is , and you come to Sammy the butchers . |
| 27 | Quickly the king 's son mounted his horse again and rode back over forty-nine kingdoms . |
| 28 | Beyond that sea rises a mountain range and beyond that stretches a vast desert where the sun twists round and beats down so hot it would dry out an eagle 's wings and turn them to dust if he flew too long . |