Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
2 Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind .
3 The man nodded and smiled all over again — rather encouragingly , this time — and then , smiling in a somewhat more valedictory sort of way , edged slowly back out through the door .
4 Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
5 ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’
6 Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom .
7 Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life .
8 If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame .
9 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
10 The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole .
11 Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale .
12 Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed .
13 It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface .
14 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
15 I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
16 As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England .
17 The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh .
18 The other end of the rainbow was presumably curled up inside the cloud .
19 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
20 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
21 ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’
22 Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system .
23 Most previous research , predominantly carried out in the USA , focuses on single aspects of the promotion process such as appraisal systems , psychological tests , career development systems , plateauing and sponsor-protege relationships .
24 However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced .
25 Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude .
26 The track eventually drops down to a road .
27 As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community .
28 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
29 An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house .
30 An item listed as extraordinary effectively writes out of the accounts a twenty three thousand pound loan … given to this man to help buy a house .
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