Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 2 | On July 3 the security forces successfully carried out a daring mission to remove wounded soldiers from the Fort in Jaffna town , under siege since mid-June . |
| 3 | If a client has successfully carried out a difficult homework task the group can reinforce this success more powerfully than a therapist alone . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , has rightly pointed out the complete disregard for the Geneva convention on the part of the perpetrators of this appalling outrage . |
| 5 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 6 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 7 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 8 | The two clubs have obviously sorted out the wide gap between their respective ideas of the compensation Stoke should receive and it 's now become clear that Macari will be allowed to negotiate his new terms WITH Stoke City 's approval . |
| 9 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 10 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |
| 11 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 12 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 13 | Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform . |
| 14 | He extended scant courtesy , even to Taheb , and despite his wealth his servants only brought in the minimum guest-offering of bread and beer . |
| 15 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 16 | She always smiled and only put on an angry face when she was being teased . |
| 17 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 18 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |
| 19 | Right , I mean , you you might find a client whose perhaps taken out a further mortgage , for , you know , some house improvements or something , |
| 20 | Further uprisings occurred until 1649 when Oliver Cromwell , fresh from his victory in the English Civil War , brutally put down the recalcitrant Gaels . |
| 21 | The pair also apparently worked out a new business model whose pricing is sensitive to the constraints placed on a software only company . |
| 22 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 23 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 24 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 25 | So weed out the awful word — organically , of course ! |
| 26 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 27 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 28 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 29 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 30 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |