Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 2 | ‘ Probably the most important thing was being able to bring together and keep together a strong collection of people at all levels . |
| 3 | She seemed to have got her act together and held down a steady job as a capstan lathe operator in a local tool factory . |
| 4 | Tom Farmer , chairman of Scottish Business in the Community , who chaired the meeting , promised that all the organisations of which Prince Charles was patron would now quickly get together and work out a strategic plan . |
| 5 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |
| 6 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 8 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 9 | So , shortly before noon , Molly trusted Mr Corduroy with her money and at six o'clock when she was in the kitchen opening a packet of cornflakes for Jacqueline 's supper the tap , left on , coughed discreetly and loosed off a generous gush of what looked to her like particularly clean and upmarket water . |
| 10 | You too , ’ he said to Sammy who was panting rapidly and sending out a constant spray of water with his tail . |
| 11 | DESPITE the encouragement of 65 degrees of bright Sardinian sunshine , Italy and Argentina contrived a predictable bout of pre-World Cup shadow boxing here yesterday and played out a dull if meaningful draw in a match dominated by the defences . |
| 12 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 13 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said , shaking himself ; , ‘ we 'll have the vigil here the night before and put up a permanent display inside the church . ’ |
| 15 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 16 | He spent three months there and came out a changed man . |
| 17 | The pressures of war also diverted Great Power attention away from East Asia , leaving Japan a freer hand to extend her interests there and bringing about a permanent weakening in the ability of Western powers to influence affairs in the area . |
| 18 | Every trip to the door was an expedition and it was acutely exasperating to arrive there and see only a little figure in the distance dancing about and grimacing at me . |
| 19 | The first angler each season to stand there and cast out a Black Pennel , about ten yards , always catches a trout of 1lb . ’ |
| 20 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 21 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 22 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 23 | The Tory nightmare ought to be that Labour revamps itself yet again and becomes truly a centrist democrat party , committed to sound money , tight budgets , and moderate taxation . |
| 24 | So some unscrupulous drug dealers are still trying to pass Ketamine off as E. Others , no doubt working on the basis that you ca n't fool all of the people all of the time , have thought ahead and worked out a clever marketing strategy . |
| 25 | The latter piece of legislation , the so-called Wagner Act , further established penalties for employers seeking to prevent unions from organising freely and set up a new federal agency , the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to ensure its provisions were enforced ( Wallace et al. , 1988 ) . |