Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 2 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 3 | McDonald 's came out as the most parentfriendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's nearly twelve o'bloody clock , ’ Billy slurred back from a now almost horizontal position , ‘ ai n't you never had enough ? |
| 6 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 7 | I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him . |
| 8 | Just prior to Twelfth Night in the January of 1483 , Anne went down with a not too serious attack of the prevalent sweating sickness . |
| 9 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 10 | Heralded by a deafening midnight firework display and a cacophony of ships ’ hooters and truck horns , P&O 's Pride of Kent , the first ferry arrival of the New Year , docked in the port 's Number Two berth and the first trucks rolled off onto the otherwise virtually empty quayside . |
| 11 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 12 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |
| 13 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |