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 | 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 . |
| 4 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 5 | You ruined them for me , and I have hated them ever since . |
| 6 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 7 | Oh why have you treated me so badly , Angel ? |
| 8 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 9 | For that very denial had , in fact , given me far more . |
| 10 | In fact the only thing they 've given me so far are heels like ungrated Parmesan cheese . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not all places treated them roughly though . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | During a break while attending a board meeting , I have looked beyond the faces and the smoke , and seen some idea that has carried me far away for a few moments . |
| 19 | I was possessed of a lively curiosity to investigate this kampong of the Other Side — that lively curiosity which has carried me so successfully through life . |
| 20 | Such differences ( and we have sketched them only very briefly here ) , are entirely right and proper within and between disciplines which are alive with debate and curiosity about the aspects of the world they have as this domain of inquiry . |
| 21 | Perry fixes his gaze onto Crilly 's ; I am hurt that he has forgotten me so soon . |
| 22 | If I had done Mrs Goreng a favour , she 'd have forgotten me speedily enough . |
| 23 | Perhaps he should have dropped me further away . |
| 24 | When parents have implicitly forbidden their otherwise relatively mature children to be fully sexual creatures , there can be enormous value in being given permission by an authoritative therapist to have and enjoy sex . |
| 25 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 26 | ‘ I can guess why you 're here , ’ she began , ‘ I just had n't expected you so early . ’ |
| 27 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I 've carried you far enough , sonny , ’ I said . |
| 29 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 30 | I would n't have considered giving you the job if my friend Lord Coleworthy had n't recommended you so highly . |