Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 2 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 3 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 4 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 5 | When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client 's image . |
| 6 | Once again the rural areas are being treated less favourably that the towns . |
| 7 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |
| 8 | Possibly they are priests or temple attendants wearing animal masks : the Minoan religion had certainly not developed so far that such things were incongruous . |
| 9 | But what of Dorothy 's reputation , which she herself had guarded so zealously all these years ? |
| 10 | Instead , the whole coating would have to be repainted much sooner that if it had been touched up periodically ! |
| 11 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 12 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 13 | The UN special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , has sought to halt the fighting and install a temporary governing committee , but the Najibullah regime has collapsed so fast that his increasingly frantic efforts never had a chance . |
| 14 | Would it have mattered so very much if Heather had found out about it ? |
| 15 | The manufacturing plant once surrounding it , is today located separately about half a mile away . |
| 16 | Although his party only won just over half of Labour 's national share of the vote , he crowned himself moral leader of the opposition the moment the election was over . |
| 17 | Part-time farmers occupied just under half the 250,000 holdings in Bavaria and provided a more stable component in the farming community than their full-time colleagues . |
| 18 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 19 | It is stressed repeatedly how some sportsmen had the potential or the promise yet lacked the application to develop it . |
| 20 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |
| 21 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |
| 22 | Yes er we 've five games now and er although we have n't won as as many as I would 've liked at least erm we 've stayed unbeaten . |
| 23 | Their stories are often forgotten today when many gardeners are more concerned with design and the practical uses and artistic value of plants . |
| 24 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've won twice already this year but I want to hold on to my record of winning in Europe at least once each year since turning professional in 1985 , ’ said the former British and US Open champion . |
| 26 | For example , party A could win two marginal seats by the barest of margins while party B won one seat with an overwhelming majority ; the aggregate vote for party B in the three seats could well exceed that of party A , but party A has won twice as many seats . |
| 27 | His slip catch on the first day — high to his left and almost beyond him — to dismiss Morris may not be bettered however long this season runs . |
| 28 | ALTHOUGH the circumstances have been so sad , the staff of the magazine have been reminded recently how much the rugby community will rally around when one of its members suffers a loss . |
| 29 | Nor can it be claimed very convincingly that socialism has been an effective counter-ideology to nationalism , or that the socialist movement has in any substantial way curbed the actions of nation states . |
| 30 | It was because the rebels believed that he had stashed away rather more cash abroad than might be necessary to pay his tuition fees that Doe met an end still more grisly than that of his Romanian guests . |