Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The really insidious and mischievous phrases are the well-established ones that come to mind unbidden because we have heard them so often . |
| 2 | You 've heard me often already chairman on this point . |
| 3 | If he 'd had his way he would have checked me out beforehand , but I circumvented him . |
| 4 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 5 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 6 | You ruined them for me , and I have hated them ever since . |
| 7 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 8 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 9 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 10 | Have you broken them in yet ? |
| 11 | Had you broken them in properly or carefully plastered any sore areas beforehand ? |
| 12 | She stopped , then said slowly , ‘ Losing your dog has shaken me up so much that I 'm very nervous about this case . |
| 13 | For that very denial had , in fact , given me far more . |
| 14 | In fact the only thing they 've given me so far are heels like ungrated Parmesan cheese . |
| 15 | She brought her hands away from her hips , which had hidden them quite well , and let a tin-opener and a tin of Whiskas drop on to the stairs . |
| 16 | has she never filled them in before ? |
| 17 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 18 | Hall reported to Palmerston on the same day that he had met the architects ‘ in conclave ’ to discuss the competition conditions , and was happy to say that he had arranged them very satisfactorily . |
| 19 | In all cases , if the creatures actually get out of their cell they die instantly , since only the magic within each cell has sustained them so long . |
| 20 | He had given them up long ago . |
| 21 | Not all places treated them roughly though . |
| 22 | Crawford had given his all again , but the film was a catastrophe and , following Twentieth Century-Fox 's string of aberrations , brought the Hollywood studio even closer to ruin . |
| 23 | Julius Apollo had mixed them up yet again . |
| 24 | She has now collected about nine or ten of my pictures , all of which contain some yellow roses , and has grouped them together beautifully in a small alcove . |
| 25 | So I 've took them in now . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , above , that bloke with the awful tie 's picked me up again , moans BETTY KITTEN WOSS . |
| 27 | But Vadinamia 's spaceport city is a compact place , and any tails would have picked me up again soon enough . |
| 28 | She had won them over completely . |
| 29 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 30 | Cos I have n't sorted them out yet ! |