Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expatriates may be sent overseas because there is a specific demand for their skills , because they are needed to train local employees in particular procedures or because the expatriates themselves are to receive training so that they can return to their home countries to pass on their newly acquired skills . |
| 2 | First of all , they have tried to shake off their somewhat starchy traditional image , by mounting exhibitions that are explicitly designed to draw in the crowds . |
| 3 | ‘ There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments , possum , but I do n't . |
| 4 | But by viewing the subconscious as a wild animal which must be tamed , we cut off our most valuable source of personal wisdom . |
| 5 | Summer 's here , hemlines are high : it 's time to put your best foot forward and show off your perfectly dressed legs — and no-one knows how to flatter them more perfectly than Pretty Polly . |
| 6 | Picking up his now empty haversack , Yanto climbed up the ladder on to the deck . |
| 7 | The Black Amulet is good for reducing your own wounds and shifting them onto the enemy , pushing up your all important combat result . |
| 8 | When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants . |
| 9 | There can be no progress while for sheep there are headage payments which simply prop up our less efficient competitors in mainland Europe . |
| 10 | The ones who served on the Organising Committee and the embryo Central Authority , and the remainder who joined them on appointment later in 1947 , were quite clear that they would not give up their statutorily entrenched independence to Citrine and Self . |
| 11 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 12 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 13 | It did n't occur to her that it showed off her pretty fair hair to perfection , and did wonders for her figure . |
| 14 | and also the carpet companies in my constituency are now going to Germany to buy up their now redundant carpet making machinery precisely because German companies ca n't compete in the kind of regime that they are have imposed upon them . |
| 15 | The exterior of the whole building itself is also about to receive new cladding which will smarten up its slightly dilapidated appearance . |
| 16 | ‘ I was such a little silly , was n't I , pouring out my precious little thoughts and fears to nice big Miguelito ! ’ |
| 17 | Charlie , undismayed , threw out his incredibly long arm like a lariat and encircled Doris 's ample waist with it . |
| 18 | Thick , black pools around the spikes showed some of the heads were fresh , though all were rotting , crumbling under the rain and wind which whipped up their oddly silken hair . |
| 19 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 20 | We amused ourselves playing ever more card games , later and later into the night , using up our sometimes meagre supply of candles . |
| 21 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 22 | Saturday 's expected points spree for West at relegated Liverpool St Helens never materialised as they signed off their highly successful season with a 32–0 win . |
| 23 | A light rain shower had hurried the last of the rubber-neck tourists off the streets and the restaurants and sex shows ( mostly on video these days ) were switching off their come-hither lights . |
| 24 | You have a wide choice of denominations — and if you feel particularly quarrelsome and contentious you can always set up your very own sect . |
| 25 | The problem of recruiting remained , however , and fighting units were unwilling to give up their most enterprising officers and men . |
| 26 | On the other hand , they felt that counsellors were generally helpful in sorting out their most pressing needs , particularly in finding them a more sympathetic GP and resolving their accommodation and financial problems . |
| 27 | ‘ 'E did n't say , but 'e wo n't want you nosin' around 'is room-'ere , come back 'ere . ’ |
| 28 | In regular manpower audits , Cadbury Schweppes pick out their most susceptible employees — usually around 50 or 60 in number — and watch them carefully , ensuring that they are happy at work in terms of the demands and responsibilities of their jobs , and how well they are paid . |
| 29 | Binoculars bring out its decidedly orange colour . |
| 30 | And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face . |