Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] and [vb base] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Elders are widely respected and have high social status . |
| 2 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 3 | And snow and always snow and block up all the paths and roads , fields and ditches . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I always try and have as few conditions as possible in a consent . |
| 5 | The Welsh Rugby Union , meanwhile , have announced the setting up of a new National Development Player Committee ( NDPC ) which will assist senior players of international potential , and also monitor and evaluate more technical and administrative elements associated with the performance of national senior squads . |
| 6 | Both miglitol and acarbose significantly increased breath hydrogen excretion ( F 2 , 3 4 =6.31 , p=0.005 ) and shortened the mouth to caecum transit time ( F 2 , 3 4 =3.49 , p=0.04 ) after breakfast compared with placebo . |
| 7 | Now go and fight terribly bad citizens |
| 8 | In every type of action the forward thrust proceeds from the hindquarters , which are more strongly angulated and have more powerful and complex muscles than the forequarters . |
| 9 | Every autumn I inspect my outside paintwork , noting defects , then scrape and rub down loose pain and remove defective putty . |
| 10 | In one group of bowerbirds , the males are brightly coloured and build only modest bowers . |