Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 2 | Drill and practice programs can fall prey to bad practice and school librarians should question the acquisition of such software for use in the methods which are probably more effectively carried out using the blackboardand the verbal question and answer routine . |
| 3 | So tearing off to find the sparrow . |
| 4 | This sends such orders electronically and simultaneously to many market makers , and so speeds up taking a position in the shares of many different companies . |
| 5 | I only drove over to do the shopping and to pick Christine up from School . |
| 6 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 7 | Er everything depending on the the the the work of the farm would come to a standstill if erm if the horses y if they were not kept in good condition , they would n't be strong enough to keep on going every day . |
| 8 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 9 | One theory says biochemical mechanisms to control the regulation of growth of some part of the organisms , say hormones or fur , may themselves become fault , or the conveyed messages over aeons may change , or the genes may suddenly switch off to inhibit the growth of winter fur of an animal used to northern climes . |
| 10 | Palmer was looking to equal that — and perhaps go on to take the US PGA Championship too , the golden grand slam . |
| 11 | Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see |
| 12 | Certainly , an emergency on the first flight after a long lay off provides the potential for an incident . |
| 13 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 14 | Knighton juggled a football in front of the Stretford End to advertise his designs on Manchester United ; last season Smart merely wandered out to draw the raffle before Hartlepool 's FA Cup tie with Bournemouth , but the adrenalin surged just the same . |
| 15 | Alternatively , there may be sufficient capital but too much of it is tied up in plant , buildings or slow moving or non-moving stock with not enough left over to pay the wages on Friday . |
| 16 | Of course , she had only nipped out to do a spot of shopping in London 's Covent Garden . |
| 17 | ‘ It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need and not what they want — but few know what they want , and very few what they need , ’ Reith had pronounced . |
| 18 | We had to get up and gingerly stamp around to recirculate the blood . |
| 19 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 20 | Williams is already booked in to face the Sunderland stewards to answer questions on time finding by two more youngsters in his care , Pond Skylark and Mailcom Lad . |
| 21 | Don Wakeford , the Holywood coach , is able to call on most of last year 's squad and although Ards should provide stiff opposition , Holywood should just edge through to meet the winners of the Carrick v Lisburn tie . |
| 22 | Thus while Out dramatizes the consequences of the principle of relativity for the observation of effects , Such turns instead to the exploration of the origins of identity in terms of contemporary theories of cosmic birth . |
| 23 | I should n't bother I should just carry on chucking a bit on here and there same as everybody does , I ca n't see many buggers go for that bloody eight pound a bag . |
| 24 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 25 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 26 | Well , it all sounds great , very interesting indeed , I 'm just going off to do a play in Wales for five weeks … |
| 27 | ‘ I just popped in to borrow a book ’ perhaps ? |
| 28 | We just popped out to get a beer and a burger , down-state a ways . |
| 29 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 30 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |