Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight-mile round trip has only been bettered once before when the loco ran 15 miles for railway celebrations in Sacramento . |
| 2 | Well erm I said if you want me to do it let me know and I 'll come and do it but just make well she 's cancelled before because once she had n't got the money and |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 4 | The UK conversion to metric standards removed ambiguities from an area of international affairs because it was widely understood and accepted rather than because of any intrinsic merit . |
| 5 | Er and we shared the common objective that these minutes would have to be scrutinized purposefully because if there was any element er in any of the minutes that we did n't disagree with , then we would point it out to the management and had a redraft and have a signed redraft er by the secretary and the convenor , which meant that er at least we were all talking with a common voice . |
| 6 | The tune is called Zig Zag and it was written more than than 60 years ago . |
| 7 | For Carolingian royal rights had applied everywhere except where a grant of immunity blocked them ; but Capetian royal rights were respecters of strongly entrenched vested interests . |
| 8 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 9 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 10 | There was a quickened magnificence about him , Nicandra , back from the ballroom , thought , as she had thought once before when he came riding towards her through a spring morning , transformed from little Dada into some kind of royal in his own right . |
| 11 | Told retrospectively as though from Judd 's disjointed , unhappy remembering , the book achieves a sad , distant , emotional intensity which gives it a special unity of tone . |
| 12 | It is a device which Conservative central office has used twice before when it was in a hole with its education policy . |
| 13 | The expert capable of detecting a Raphael at ten paces is admired almost as though he partook of the genius of the artist himself , and can be guaranteed at least a modest fame in the mass media . |
| 14 | That 's probably sold then because if I had a choice of four I would take the upstairs one would n't you ? |
| 15 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 16 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 17 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 18 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 19 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 20 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 21 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 22 | The words were spoken mechanically as though by a bad actor . |
| 23 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |
| 24 | Purposely pulled apart as when , torn to scraps |
| 25 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 26 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 27 | He 's a very aggressive batsman , but he finds the time to be a great encourager of his partners , and Phil Bainbridge is convinced that he 's never run faster than when they were in together against Lancashire . ’ |
| 28 | He knew that she and Massingham had worked together before when he had been a newly promoted divisional detective inspector and she a sergeant . |
| 29 | Goff recollects him saying that he felt in danger of being left behind because whilst exciting things were happening in art he was not being allowed to develop . |
| 30 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |