Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 2 | Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 4 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 5 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
| 6 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
| 7 | The last delivery from the Royal Oak Colliery in South Wales had amounted to only half the tonnage ordered the rest apparently diverted to fulfil a similar order from another preserved railway . |
| 8 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
| 9 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
| 10 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 11 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 12 | She 'd only intended to buy a small tin of paint and one brush . |
| 13 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 14 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 15 | And the seams of the canister are only designed to withstand a certain amount of pressure . |
| 16 | ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added . |
| 17 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 18 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 19 | Lewis claimed that this was tantamount to ‘ breathing a lie through silver ’ , a riposte which Tolkien felt sufficiently challenging to require a written reply . |
| 20 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 21 | If you only want to borrow a small amount , a better option is to take a further advance from your existing lender ( less than £100 to arrange ) or , alternatively , a top-up loan from a second lender . |
| 22 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 23 | The dwellings will be so designed to provide a satisfactory level of privacy for adjoining residential properties . |
| 24 | The pupils can manipulate the data or screen image , experimenting and taking risks which can be swiftly deleted leaving a professional image on screen unspoiled by scratchings and rubbings out . |
| 25 | Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . |
| 26 | Q I can knit in double jacquard and have made a couple of garments , but would very much like to knit a single motif . |
| 27 | The recurrent celebration of the martyrs ' feast days catered for the need to make the church 's past present , linked the sacred time of the Christian year into the sacred history of God 's holy people , and so helped to reconcile a triumphant faith which had emerged dominant in society , with the tenacious sense that blessedness lay in being persecuted for his name , and it kept alive a sense that Christ 's kingdom was not of this world . |
| 28 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 29 | I only manage to squint a civil wince in return . |
| 30 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |