Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 2 | Battery and fuel switches were turned off either just before or after ground impact and an attempt was made to close the thrust levers , but these would not move . |
| 3 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 4 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
| 5 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 6 | He answered that he had gone too far now and that the Country expected a dissolution . |
| 7 | Well , even then , not knowing Goreng and with two toes blown off as cleanly as if the surgeon 's knife had done the job , a mangled calf , and shrapnel resident two centimetres from the balls , I could recognise Martinho had played a masterly hand . |