Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TML objected to Morton 's " abrasive " personal management style , and refused in mid-February to sign a document which would have allowed Eurotunnel to start drawing down some £400 million of additional funding for the project . |
| 2 | Most hill-walkers ' wildlife experiences take place as they mow down interesting species caught in the glare of their XR2 's headlights on the way home from a hill . |
| 3 | I agree that nobody should be forced to breathe in other people 's cigarette smoke . |
| 4 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 5 | Although the major bookmaking firms are represented on the users committee , they were originally not keen on Hong Kong because it meant bringing in extra staff in the mornings . |
| 6 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 7 | A pyramid venture was started recently at one licensed dealer , every participant contributing £100 , and bringing in more people . |
| 8 | Because all aspects of the product must be considered , VE is essentially a team operation , bringing in those people with specific knowledge , from anywhere in the firm as required , as part-time members . |
| 9 | Because all aspects of the product must be considered , VE is essentially a team operation , bringing in those people with specific knowledge , from anywhere in the firm as required , as part-time members . |
| 10 | We send in negative data on our peers — those who are competing with us for more powerful positions . |
| 11 | No one was hurt , though several climbers were involved in the slide in Coire an Lochain , with one being carried down some 400ft . |
| 12 | I bounced off fat people in double-breasted pinstriped suits , and strode beside young execs and briefcase-bearing , silked women , into the World Trade Centre . |
| 13 | The analysts also said that Shell might have to write off another £37 million , though the company claimed that efforts had been made to ensure the situation would not arise again . |
| 14 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 15 | PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take . |
| 16 | It strikes me , as I 'm hanging around a dressing room the size of a barn , that Carter have wound up more people again this year than any other British band in the Top 40 — with the possible exception of The Levellers . |
| 17 | When I changed up fifty quid 's worth here erm on the Monday I got four point three five . |
| 18 | China refused to accept back 71 people who entered Hong Kong illegally and accused the colony of reneging on a 1982 agreement on immigration policy . |
| 19 | But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff . |
| 20 | Bet nobody in this world 's gon na win back forty pence . |
| 21 | To find out four people all well known in their fields agreed to let us find the details of their financial , health , police , and other records . |
| 22 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 23 | This week IBM unveiled plans to shed another 10,000 employees — about 4.5 per cent of its US workforce — saving $1billion a year and it will buy back another $4billion-worth of its own shares . |
| 24 | Any artist should seek out those people who can get them closer to a record company . ’ |
| 25 | Young physicians considering a research based career should seek out those people in senior posts who have a real desire to see fresh minds flourish in academic medicine . |
| 26 | Would I stay on at night to go over some sales figures ? |
| 27 | I also switched on the echo-sounder and adjusted it to ‘ bleep ’ if we passed over any fish — such are the benefits of modern technology ! |
| 28 | The European leader is a water company , Generale des Eaux , whose solid-waste business in France turns over some $600m a year . |
| 29 | He also claims that a dispute between the two countries in 1988–89 over a new Japanese fighter plane , the FSX , arose because America was afraid it would be too good and might be able to shoot down American aircraft . |
| 30 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |