Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 4 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 5 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 6 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |
| 7 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 8 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 9 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 10 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 11 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 12 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 13 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 14 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 15 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 16 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 17 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 18 | Illness is , as already pointed out in this section , more amenable to definition and measurement than either pain or health . |
| 19 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 20 | They were the weavers followed by a few tottering sailors who had just come out of another tavern . |
| 21 | To summarize the total award is thus made up in this way there are agreed items as shown on the er schedule of the plaintiff 's submissions which come to three hundred and fifty two thousand , five hundred and ninety six pounds , |
| 22 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 23 | I 'm just fed up with this ankle and … and I should n't be here . ’ |
| 24 | as I say I 'm just fed up with this lot , what is the outlook on er income tax ? |
| 25 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 26 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 27 | This does n't always work and older beginners are soon put off by this attitude . |
| 28 | — which begins and ends with his soliloquies ; and V.vii. , where he is finally chased off by another bastard ) . |
| 29 | It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way . |
| 30 | He seemed more caught up with this coincidence than interested in the school he had come to see , Sara decided . |