Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novel opens with a series of quotations from well-known works of European literature loosely strung together with third-person narrative . |
| 2 | Rather sooner than expected , Digital Equipment Corp duly announced yesterday that its first second source for the Alpha AXP RISC microprocessor would be Mitsubishi Electric Corp , which will manufacture and sell DEC-designed versions of the Alpha AXP chips along with its own designs based on the Alpha AXP architecture from next year . |
| 3 | When the First Duma met in April 1906 it was dominated by Kadets , led by P. N. Miliukov , and peasant deputies loosely bound together in the Trudovik ( Labour ) Group . |
| 4 | On Sheet 145 there is a short stretch of lane so described immediately south of Banbury . |
| 5 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 6 | It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid . |
| 7 | A huge steel crane hook suddenly descended quietly between their faces and made them both leap back in alarm . |
| 8 | Continuous or ‘ posture ’ springing is a mattress literally knitted together matures single length of wire . |
| 9 | Sarah only hoped now that Janine and Roy sorted themselves out . |
| 10 | Joseph glanced around , his eyes darting , and Patrick suddenly realized just how nervous the man was . |
| 11 | The children covered their eyes and turned away as the needle went in , but the squirrel only jerked slightly then lay still . |
| 12 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 13 | Why , for example , have Scottish cities been exempt from the urban riots which , every year since 1981 , have seen parts of English towns and cities literally torn apart ? |
| 14 | She was scorched by his touch , branded by his lips , and the fight suddenly drained away from her , leaving her weak and trembling in his arms . |
| 15 | McAllister , Speed , Strachan , Kelly all played superbly ( Speed particularly so — even Trevor ‘ Triffic ’ Brooking thought so ) and Deane began to look a bit more menacing . |
| 16 | For the United States , Mander ( 1978 , pp.19–20 ) notes , in all seriousness : ‘ During the early 1970s , all environmental groups together spent about $500,000 per year in advertising in order to offset an average of about $3 billion in corporate expenditures on the same subjects . |
| 17 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 18 | It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place . |
| 19 | The car eventually pulled away from the kerb and drove after the F40 . |
| 20 | Boy chases girl and catches her in a fond embrace without pausing as they cover the stage with footwork of a speed rarely seen elsewhere . |
| 21 | The work was completed , the Tyndalls eventually passed away and now the University has a music Department housed in pure poetry . |
| 22 | Her brothers all smoked yet when Mickey had seen his sister smoking he had snatched the cigarette from her hand , grinding it out with his heel , shouting at her that only dags smoked . |
| 23 | Histamine secretion alone differed significantly among the groups . |
| 24 | Above : This car was bound for Squires Gate on 18 June 1955 , when the car suddenly turned right into Station Road , the points having been left open by the previous Marton car . |
| 25 | Most of the housewives — twenty-four out of the forty — said that their husbands only commented negatively , never appreciatively . |
| 26 | He threw one the very worst time , up on top of the wall , and the other kids all shunned away . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course he do n't , ’ Jack Pertwee suddenly interrupted belligerently . |
| 28 | Our aircraft all returned safely to their bases . |
| 29 | In Kendal prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class , and the Kendal yards , with the merchant 's house , the workers ' cottages , and the spinning and weaving lofts all packed together under close supervision opened up new conditions . |
| 30 | The President personally remained immensely popular and in 1944 he fought and won his fourth presidential campaign . |