Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 2 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 3 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 4 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 5 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 6 | The sad thing is such behaviour will only end up getting the poor stalker or ghillie the sack so it 's not worth the trouble . |
| 7 | The safest way to proceed with a project that uses any unusual components is to buy these components first , and to only go on to buy the remaining components once you actually have the ‘ hard to find ’ items in your possession . |
| 8 | It is almost impossible to generalise about the sorts of disturbances which will necessarily reach back to affect the monetary sector and the flow of bank lending . |
| 9 | Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev . |
| 10 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 11 | Amazingly , his talk was of going back to ravaged Yugoslavia soon to carry on reporting the bloody civil war . |
| 12 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 13 | I soon cheered up watching the glorious butterflies going about their business in the hot climate and then cooling down amongst the fountains . |
| 14 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 15 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 16 | Doctors are all very well , but mountain climbing doctors are all bonkers in my experience , mutant crosses between James Robertson Justice , Rab C Nesbitt and Evel Knievel , eternally setting up drips the better and faster to imbibe Old Scrotum 's Real Brain Shrinking Liver Ale . |
| 17 | There was some pretty rough weather during December 1935 and the writer recalls seeing ex-Croydon Corporation No. 19E sweeping snow at Selhurst Station , while work was still going on erecting the double overhead wires . |
| 18 | Those shares 're still paying off better'n the regular paycheck . ’ |
| 19 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 20 | We tend to feel that we can always cut off alter the first phase if money runs out but in fact we can not because the whole thing is a single investment . |
| 21 | A national NUJ official says it 's a major achievement , but insists that the fight will still go on to get the sacked journalists their jobs back.Nick Clark reports . |
| 22 | ‘ I always end up wearing the same old make-up , but just a little bit less of it , ’ admitted one frustrated friend . |
| 23 | We do n't actually make up , he still carries on paying the same , we do n't , we do n't increase the allocation , when he gets to sixty , or sixty five or whenever . |
| 24 | For example , Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space . |
| 25 | When using stripes of weaving , the design should be fairly simple , like Card 1 or Design 1 ( above ) or carefully worked out to include the blank areas . |
| 26 | During this period , they also set about rubbishing the British proposals for competing currencies , and for the hard ecu . |
| 27 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 28 | Australia though came back to win the decisive fifth match by 47 runs , to take an eventful and exciting series 3–2 . |
| 29 | They were supposedly going out to hit the high spots together , leaving me to throw some things into a bag and drive down to the cottage . |
| 30 | We can now move on to analyse the middle class and the varied strata within it in terms of this dynamic of structuration . |