Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had done a little Cassandra Austen editing in the past , destroying a few … . |
| 2 | Now they look as if lean and built a Where Pit was , built built close there . |
| 3 | Copper had made a completely recovery , he was as sound as ever although a little on the thin side in an attempt to save his legs . |
| 4 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 5 | We have n't even had a yet Tony . |
| 6 | N. Have you ever had a gnarly car incident ? |
| 7 | Scarborough have arranged a 12.30pm Christmas Day inspection . |
| 8 | Given a correctly operating system advantages are considerable . |
| 9 | By the late 1870s , however , they had developed a truly Jacobin approach . |
| 10 | Well , that was n't all so farfetched , and anyone who 'd ever hosted a botfly larva , for example , would surely have sympathised . |
| 11 | The system has proved a remarkably cost effective way of ensuring that people are not appointed to consultant posts unless they have reached appropriate levels of training and experience . |
| 12 | This could be termed an uncomely version of what happens to Patrick , whose wife discovers that , at long last , she is pregnant . |
| 13 | By electing him leader , Labour has gained a so-so number one , and lost an unbeatable number two . |
| 14 | The far Left is riven by fierce factional divisions both between Marxists and non-Marxists , and between different schools of Marxist thought , and the chiliastic vision of anarchism has remained a distinctly minority current . |
| 15 | By a curious paradox of war , the Schlieffen Plan had been completely reversed : the Germans had been reduced to stalemate in the west while in the east they had inflicted an almost knock-out blow . |
| 16 | During the year 1976 the highest level of enthusiasm for family planning endured , more than 8 million sterilisations were reported , more than three times the number in the preceding year … these meant a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of Indian couples estimated to be protected by modern contraception achieved within a matter of months . |
| 17 | Columbia , now owned by Japan 's Sony , has become as well known for the high spending of its management team , Peter Guber and Jon Peters , as its films ; Mr Peters has now taken a back seat . |
| 18 | Even Midnight 's show-jumping had taken a back seat . |
| 19 | Since having her daughter Chiara , five , and son Joshua , three , she has been a full-time mother in rural Wiltshire , and her looks have taken a back seat . |
| 20 | That her family had taken a back seat in her life . |
| 21 | All the feelings that had taken a back seat since they had slept together resurfaced , and she suddenly felt lost and confused . |
| 22 | ‘ It certainly has n't taken a back seat and there have been developments , but I 'd better not tell you what they are until the details are officially released . ’ |
| 23 | So far the EPA has taken a back seat to the Department of the Interior in shaping new environmental policy in the new administration ; Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has already taken action on endangered species , land management issues and reorganizing its science programme . |
| 24 | Carr has taken a back seat since retiring because of persistent injuries in October 1988 . |
| 25 | The American composer George Crumb has achieved an almost cult following for his mystical work . |
| 26 | The National Council of Churches in Kenya ( NCCK ) has launched a bi-monthly newsletter — Church Link — to serve its member churches . |