Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 3 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 4 | The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence : |
| 5 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 6 | Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore . |
| 7 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 8 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 9 | During 1933 Ian Hope Dundas , Alexander Raven Thomson , A.K. Chesterton and William Joyce all joined either as a result of Mosley 's charismatic personality or convinced by the fascist creed . |
| 10 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 11 | The idea is very possible , but would be better carried out on a factory produced four door ( which should be available soon ) as adding extra doors and pillars will increase the cost of conversion enormously . |
| 12 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 13 | The real success formula became evident from the very beginning a mixture of good humour , innuendo , cliché , double-entendre all mixed together in a cauldron of what was plainly goodwill and a desire for a good time . |
| 14 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 15 | 1971 ) , the original convergence thesis itself has become somewhat modified away from an emphasis on a trend towards uniformity . |
| 16 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 17 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 18 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 19 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 20 | Karelius , about to agree , suddenly turned away in a fit of coughing . |
| 21 | I 'm not writing anything off because I 've had problems like this in the past which have suddenly turned round in a week . |
| 22 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 23 | Cheese/egg meals • Egg or cheese and tomato sandwiches , yogurt ; • egg or cheese on toast , fruit ; • jacket potato , grated cheese , sweetcorn ; • lentil or pea soup topped with grated cheese , bread , fruit ; • a two-egg omelette with baked beans or peas , bread , yogurt , fruit ; • cauliflower cheese , peas , bread ; • a liquid meal : a banana , skimmed milk , an egg and a little wheatgerm all whisked together into a milk-shake . |
| 24 | Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 . |
| 25 | Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population . |
| 26 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 27 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 28 | The impromptu petition was apparently drawn up at a dinner given by the Society of Dilettanti and sent to the Arts Minister , Mr Richard Luce . |
| 29 | I worked my way along the haphazard-looking perimeter fence formed from the tombs of kings and bishops ; all one piece , all stitched together by a web of carved stone and iron railings . |
| 30 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |