Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 2 | ‘ I just wish clients could always be relied on to behave likewise . ’ |
| 3 | The real McCoy is made up in loose linens , which can be relied on to hang stylishly on even the stickiest of summer days . |
| 4 | Both guitars are too inexpensive to have received much setting up , and both suffer from poor finishes , bad chrome plating , uneven frets , indifferent machineheads and ill-balanced pickups . |
| 5 | The ones listed below give more detailed information about social security benefits . |
| 6 | The criteria listed below do not correspond to distinct levels of difficulty , although they represent increasing levels of complexity from 1 to 4 . |
| 7 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 8 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 9 | The structure of the book reinforces the central theme of different levels of knowing : Sylvia 's ’ known ’ past is intercut with italicised text of ’ thoughts , feelings and experiences pieced together form recently recovered memories ’ . |
| 10 | Space is limited so fill in the coupon on page 188 ( before May 11 ) to book a place at the most entertaining and educational event of the year — or risk being Green with envy ! |
| 11 | Moreover , the concordance data on twins reared together do not distinguish conclusively between genetic and environmental transmission . |
| 12 | Marius and I were too tired to care , so carried on ironing regardless . |
| 13 | The name under which business is carried on does not appear in your advert . |
| 14 | Motivation was strongest in a democratic group where boys often carried on working even when a leader left the room . |
| 15 | mm , mm just wondering what to have next come on sit back |
| 16 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 17 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 19 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 20 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 21 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 22 | The only real progress has come in learning how to drive those evaluation routines faster and faster , thus allowing larger numbers of positions to be examined in the time available . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember , that 's what I 've come in to find out |
| 24 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 25 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 26 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 27 | They do not control the party ; they are not well organised enough to do so . |
| 28 | Looked so fed up tonight love . |
| 29 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 30 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |