Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem seems to lie , as it lay for the requirement that there be no relevant falsehood , in the way in which new true beliefs can be added piecemeal and overturn the existing justification , while there remain yet further truths waiting in the background to overturn the overturning . |
| 2 | Tensely , the airmen looked below and saw the crowded train reach the North Queensferry side in safety . |
| 3 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 4 | According to Indian values the courts should have looked further and settled the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint . |
| 5 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 6 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 7 | Philip , however , seems to have overplayed his hand , demanding that Henry surrender Pacy-sur-Eure as security while the exchange was being carried out and causing the English King to break off the conference in indignation . |
| 8 | ‘ We have come here and beaten the best form team in the country and we could have killed them off at half-time with a three or four-goal lead . |
| 9 | Restored in 1980 , ‘ AQJ was wrecked in a crash during 1989 but rebuilt again and reflew the following year . |
| 10 | Most internal frames are made from aluminium strips bolted together and to get the best fit you should try to bed the frame to fit your own back shape . |
| 11 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 12 | ( The same year , Wayne had acted in and directed the gung-ho Green Berets , which supported US military involvement in Vietnam . ) |
| 13 | I was one of the selected few who were billetted ashore and joined the various boats every day . |
| 14 | Alternatively , you can have a new will drawn up and revoke the old one . |
| 15 | Mambo graphics had long crossed over and splattered the high street , while surfer-turned-designer Shawn Stussy was being lined up by BBC2 ( in its The Look ) as a street version of Ralph Lauren , a marketeer with a useful line in Californian surfer drawl . |
| 16 | The recalcitrant firm , dependent on telephone selling , could n't afford to have its lines tied up and waved the white flag together with a cheque . |
| 17 | Strikes remained relatively large , but the numbers have fallen sharply and represent the lowest level of industrial conflict in the post-war years . |
| 18 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |
| 19 | Formed in 1981 ULSS helped set up and launch the first Scottish Amicable unit-linked policy — the Capital Investment Bond . |
| 20 | To provide for these services to be provided efficiently and to avoid the Assistant Director being involved in detailed matters in these areas to the detriment of his managerial responsibility it is recommended that an Office Manager be appointed who would co-ordinate all these activities . |
| 21 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 22 | Mr Kerr had stepped in and overpowered the accused , who then had pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly . |
| 23 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 24 | The third part of our competition to win this beautiful bedroom furniture from Olympus — just cut out and keep the special voucher |
| 25 | Not realising that the afternoon hours had passed , she had gone out and thrown the boiling rice water on the ground . |
| 26 | If he was in such a desperate hurry , he could have gone round and gone the other way |
| 27 | Mere was a proposal that the financial institutions should jointly fund a ‘ Money Management Association ’ , which might have taken on and developed the educational work done by the voluntary National Savings Committee . |
| 28 | She decided that she would make a phone call just to check that Jenny had left home and knew the right time of her arrival . |
| 29 | Almost every activity of the outside world was reproduced there and provided the same outlets , fatuous and valuable , for human energy . |
| 30 | Yet , he still somehow manages to listen to virtually everything that 's sent in and retain the same enthusiasm for music that has been with him through his 23 years at Radio 1 . |