Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 2 | The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 3 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 4 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 5 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 6 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 7 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 8 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 9 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 10 | He stroked the side of her face with it , amused by her attempts to catch his fingers in her teeth , teasing her with it , darting little touches here and there on her lips . |
| 11 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 12 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 13 | They tackled like demons and when they were able to run the ball back at the Londoners their refusal to capitulate eventually wore down the opposition . |
| 14 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 15 | I do n't think so do n't think so . |
| 16 | Both guitars are too inexpensive to have received much setting up , and both suffer from poor finishes , bad chrome plating , uneven frets , indifferent machineheads and ill-balanced pickups . |
| 17 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 18 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 19 | PEOPLE savaged by the tabloids are banding together to fight back . |
| 20 | Speaking of exploitation , students of the genre might care to consider Trapper County War ( Guild ) , an archetypal example of the backwoods nightmare , set in one of those supposed hillbilly communities where the locals , when not spitting out tobacco or imprecations , are banding together to hunt down interlopers and blast them to bits . |
| 21 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 22 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 23 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 24 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 25 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 26 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |
| 27 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 28 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 29 | Pat swiftly turned away . |
| 30 | The ones listed below give more detailed information about social security benefits . |