Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now come on sit down Dawn for Christ sake . |
| 2 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 3 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 4 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 5 | UB 's shares only nudged up 3p to 352p . |
| 6 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 7 | The group that was introduced to the sounds of individual letters was better at spelling than the group trained only to pick out sounds in words . |
| 8 | The information only came out bit by bit since she 's still not easy in her mind about talking to us . |
| 9 | Medeva 's OTC products were only turning over £4–4.5m including exports , so they were not viable in this cut throat business . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go religious on you , but the approach of April naturally conjures up images of Easter , and hence , the Lamb of God , lamb on the table , and all of that . |
| 11 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 12 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 13 | The long drawn out war in South Africa did much to discredit imperial adventuring . |
| 14 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 15 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 16 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 17 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 18 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 19 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 20 | So take along swatches of fabric and paint colours when you 're choosing — see our handy boxes for further tips and hints . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S banks were accused yesterday of secretly plotting together to bring back charges for customers in credit . |
| 22 | On either side of the steep trail down again , at the end of the hill , grazing ponies lined the track — presumably filling in time between summers , when they earn their living giving children rides up and down the beach . |
| 23 | I like to keep the background dark , and just bring in elements of sky and buildings and use the Norman to highlight the model . ’ |
| 24 | This does not rule out evolution by mutation and selection . |
| 25 | Ford dismissed an immediate meeting with the unions but did not rule out talks after Christmas . |
| 26 | Listening carefully , could just make out sounds of movement from somewhere down below . |
| 27 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 29 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 30 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |