Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has now effectively given up trying to protect Canadian television ( much of which is publicly funded ) from new competition from US satellites . |
| 2 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 3 | Pilger , furious , was eventually provoked enough to shout : ‘ You 've had it , cock ! |
| 4 | If an employee is justifiably dismissed then provided the restraint is reasonable it is still enforceable . |
| 5 | As the overall shape of wage profiles are widely recognized why do workers not stay longer with one firm ? |
| 6 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 7 | Colonel Fergusson had long since given up trying to understand the business . |
| 8 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 9 | Birds have long since given up trying to nest in her eaves . |
| 10 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |
| 11 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 12 | This remains one of the strongest reasons why so many parents still want their children to have RE even though they themselves have long since given up having much to do with religion . |
| 13 | Eventually wound up taking lessons from him . |
| 14 | ‘ Many are mostly torn apart growing up with two cultures and trying to reconcile themselves to both . ’ |
| 15 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 16 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5 , where the first few pixels are more widely spaced simply to fit everything into the diagram . |
| 17 | Drill and practice programs can fall prey to bad practice and school librarians should question the acquisition of such software for use in the methods which are probably more effectively carried out using the blackboardand the verbal question and answer routine . |
| 18 | Norwich reformers agreed , claiming that amelioration properly carried through made them more long-suffering . |
| 19 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 20 | Zen had long given up trying to understand . |
| 21 | The estate as so altered then binds the original tenant , because the assignee has been put into the shoes of the original tenant and can do all such acts as the original tenant could have done . |
| 22 | It may even be possible that house prices have merely adjusted upwards to meet the extra spending power of those obtaining mortgages with tax relief attached . |
| 23 | " You 've only come here to hurt these people . " |
| 24 | And that , and sh , and she goes , no I 've only come round to see John cos of his birthday you see . |
| 25 | We 've only come today to make sure everything is all right . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said , ‘ she has only come in to die , but I think that had she been removed before , much of her suffering would have been saved . ’ |
| 27 | She said you 'd woken , but when you did n't turn up I thought I 'd better come back to investigate . ’ |
| 28 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 29 | Consequently , these refugees are not merely attracted emotionally to return to Palestine but live under the pressure of a hostile environment which will continue to encourage them to leave Lebanon . |
| 30 | Pub food was ‘ obviously frozen then reheated ’ and over-priced . |