Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This way one feels much more invigorated when returning to the knitting machine .
2 There was certainly not the constant locking , unlocking and clanging of doors nor was there the feeling of oppression that is so often felt when moving around most prisons .
3 But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress .
4 For he has fittingly restored the most beautiful places built long ago by Charles the Great at Nijmegen and near the village of Ingelheim , adorned with acclaimed workmanship — structures extremely well built but decaying through neglect and age .
5 This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope .
6 Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment .
7 Then , it follows from that , that understanding Shakespeare , and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive , is also a good , because if for example this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no one could see him and no one could understand him and no one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment .
8 They were also slightly more often diagnosed as suffering from alcoholism , schizophrenia , hysteria and chronic brain syndrome .
9 The stereotype of the Mexican peasant , dwarfed by his sombrero and sitting by a cactus should , perhaps , be more realistically presented as listening to his radio set .
10 Furthermore , while the corporate constitution has a partially contractual basis , there are also significant mandatory elements , and many of those ingredients which are attributable to private ordering are more accurately described as resulting from management imposition than a process of contracting .
11 In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] .
12 These were later positively identified as belonging to 25year-old Garry Pettitt .
13 Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent .
14 Mr Thompson said that what marked out the drift to recession was that the service sector would be as badly hit as manufacturing at least , and possibly worse affected , unlike in the recession of 1981 .
15 They were all hearteningly well preserved and twinkling with renewed well-being , and none more so than Jim , 87 , and Mary , 91 , who met in an old people 's home and scandalised the staff by taking naps on the same bed , before deciding to make honest pensioners of each other .
16 Sarah 's brother Mick was the star pupil at his College and great things were predicted for him , and John was now fully recovered and walking without a limp .
17 No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique , in that all these reactions go on by simply automatically heating and cooling without ever opening the reaction tube .
18 Although he momentarily speaks of " " eelde " " , " old age " , in general terms ( 3885 ) he is quite clearly presented as speaking of old age as he knows it , on the basis of his personal experience : he starts his speech with a reference to himself , " " I " " , which by line 3874 is expanded to " " we olde men " " .
19 The waiter has just brought us our dough , our honorarium or whatever it is , and we 're sitting there quietly snorting and drooling into our brandy balloon , and relishing a perspicacious perfecto .
20 The element of sexism in the tax system has been corrected to the extent that the income of the wife is now taxed independently so that her income is no longer viewed as belonging to her husband .
21 But he could glimpse that the man was no longer standing but walking in a small circle , keeping level with the horse 's shoulder as he galloped .
22 The horse will misjudge situations , whether they be real or imagined dangers , and be too easily distracted and lacking in concentration to be reliable in competitive or pleasure riding .
23 The calibration is based on CACI 's long experience in the field of catchment area study across all retail sectors , and is therefore best viewed as relating to the catchment area of the centre as a whole .
24 A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet .
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