Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 2 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 3 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 4 | There were gaps last night — he had no idea the when of his visit to the hospital : if he had come straight home or stayed out drinking — that , try as he might , Parker could not remember . |
| 5 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 6 | With your fingers dusted with icing sugar or cornflour , mould the balloon into shape and pinch in four gentle ridges , spaced evenly apart and pointing downwards . |
| 7 | They were made all right and used in even more subtle ways than I explained . |
| 8 | Frank , I think , had spoken to him about not taking everything that was said so personally but to learn how to ride the ups and downs , the vicissitudes , of theatre . ’ |
| 9 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 10 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 11 | All of a sudden you , you done quite well and pick up a . |
| 12 | Even this , in its way a successful transaction , had done no better than limp lamely to its achievement . |
| 13 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 14 | We furthermore demonstrate that plexiglass in combination with lead shields 32 P induced Bremsstrahlung more efficiently than plexiglass alone . |
| 15 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 16 | Yeah well I mean I was there and all they did was they did n't say anything to each other , in the same room , just acted totally normally but did n't say anything to each other . |
| 17 | Through an examination of the files down to 1551 , it is intended to produce a more detailed guide to the contents of these records than is available at present , so that they may be used more easily and become better known . |
| 18 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 19 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 20 | She did n't look as if she had slept too well and admitted as much . |
| 21 | In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’ |
| 22 | It is vitally important that canister filters are packed fairly loosely and maintained correctly to ensure that the correct amount of water reached the pump impeller . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone on the MMSC team has pulled together well and worked conscientiously towards this target , ’ Mike said . |
| 24 | He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England . |
| 25 | Her eyes , of indeterminate colour , were set far apart and protruded slightly . |
| 26 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 27 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 28 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 29 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
| 30 | Henry seemed to feel he 'd gone far enough and backed off . |