Example sentences of "[adv prt] 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 | Segments of DNA can make extra copies of themselves which then move off and re-insert on completely different chromosomes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The station could be up and running by about 1994 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | twelfths is a good one quite often and then we 'll add up and find out how many twelfths we 've got . |
| 13 | A basic address book can be up and working in under half an hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |