Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isaac and his brother Jacob [ q.v. ] clubbed together to produce Hebrew books for the Christian market , and thereby became acquainted with some of the most eminent Christian Hebraists of the day . |
| 2 | The benches by the Cages were suddenly stark and mysterious as they slowly became set against this drifting whiteness . |
| 3 | Much lies hidden behind this sensational growth . |
| 4 | So get rid of that bit of fence ? |
| 5 | Only having moved into this new warehouse apartment just over two months ago , Laura still was n't quite sure how most of the ultra-modern appliances actually worked . |
| 6 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 7 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 8 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 9 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 10 | So having put on these er temporary protective gloves . |
| 11 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 12 | There are many recorded instances of mass deaths of lemmings after a phase of population expansion , when they have apparently become subjected to some form of social stress that leads to their attempting to migrate across impassable barriers ( Elton , 1942 ) . |
| 13 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 14 | So , we ca n't use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet . |
| 15 | For one thing , she was n't cold-blooded enough to have capitalised on those moments . |
| 16 | Better get rid of that line yeah . |
| 17 | Failure on such a scale can be attributable only to some major underlying cause , which has stubbornly defied discovery , or has been equally stubbornly kept hidden by those who , whilst being aware of it , are interested only in its continued existence . |
| 18 | She and Phil Morris together had hit upon this virtue out of necessity since the machines could still print only one colour and new machinery for multi-coloured printing was much too expensive . |
| 19 | I 'm not using bugged in that er , bugging in conversations . |
| 20 | Wordsworth soon became disillusioned with most of Godwin 's ideas . |
| 21 | The pianist was Roger Bluff , who seemed able to draw a singing tone from the Festival piano that I have not heard matched for some time . |
| 22 | I just got shot of that king . |
| 23 | Just got rid of all your cards ! |
| 24 | Its mother already looked exasperated by these cries . |
| 25 | With the utmost economy , of the kind we have already seen used to such effect in other Hebrew narratives , he reports the battle . |
| 26 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 27 | I could not feel offended after this , and accepted the wine . |
| 28 | We wo n't be printing names ; this is not going to be a dealer persecution service , nor even a personal arbitration service such as Which ? magazine 's ‘ Personal Service ’ , because we simply can not become involved on that level . |
| 29 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 30 | Although by his own admission , Nicholson had ‘ done all the drugs ’ he did not become addicted to any . |