Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 3 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 4 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 5 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 7 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 8 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |
| 9 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 10 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 11 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 12 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 13 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 14 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 15 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 16 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 17 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 18 | That 's why we 'd better move on without any delay . ’ |
| 19 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 20 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 21 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 22 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 23 | I think we 'd better switch off at this stage . |
| 24 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 25 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 26 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 27 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 28 | thesis ( Young 1986 ) , Mike Chatterton ( 1988 ) rightly homed in on this question of ethics , saying : ‘ there is reference here to the moral dilemma(s) posed by ‘ insiders ’ using their access to do ethnography and what that entails regarding betraying confidences etc … . |
| 29 | So carry on under that heading that we 've started non-metals . |
| 30 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |