Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be found on the shaft of the penis and on the glans , but their predilection for a damp and warm environment makes them most often seen under the foreskin . |
| 2 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 3 | Bed them on well rammed soil and , if the slope is steep , secure them with wooden wedges driven firmly into the ground . |
| 4 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 5 | You make one by going through all your data to find all the different phonetic sounds you have written , and arranging them on phonetically ordered charts , one for consonants and one for vowels , including modifications ( for details see Introduction to Phonemic Analysis ) . |
| 6 | Single adults constitute 30 per cent of total lettings , with 13,000 of the group moving into association homes each year , most of them in poorly paid jobs or unemployed , whose rents amount to about 38 per cent of net income . |
| 7 | Their napkins were kept for them in specially designed pigeon-holes to which they homed on entering , before head-ing for their tables . |
| 8 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 9 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 10 | But Lewis 's conception of the book changed as he himself changed , and nothing much more got written until 193 1 . |
| 11 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 12 | It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge . |
| 13 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 14 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 15 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 16 | I decided not to go in there on the grounds that Tommy would not , and Tommy off duty in Tommy 's off-duty clothes was what I most definitely wanted to be at that moment . |
| 17 | Until now the greeting I most often heard had been G'Tag or Morgen . |
| 18 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 19 | As I somewhat impatiently explained , we do n't actually teach English . |
| 20 | It 's my expectation and my hope that someone much better qualified than I will come forward . ’ |
| 21 | Why else someone so well qualified ? |
| 22 | In fact , I would go so far as to say that there is almost a feeling of relief here that Clause 28 is associated with someone so widely discredited . |
| 23 | Is the Minister aware that when I recently addressed a meeting of the Ayr , Renfrew and Bute Black-Faced Sheep Breeders Association not only was I extremely well received but much concern was expressed about the position of sheep rearers in the area ? |
| 24 | ‘ Because I only just made up my mind , ’ replied Rosie . |
| 25 | I do n't know if all the pieces are there cos I only just noticed , you know ? |
| 26 | ‘ I only ever met one who got it right ’ , he says , ‘ and he was an Abo called Albert out of Hermannsburg . |
| 27 | Why was I not instantly informed of his true situation ? |
| 28 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |
| 29 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 30 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |