Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack eventually got up just before dawn , and went to the window . |
| 2 | Read on to find out more about these appropriately named fish . |
| 3 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 4 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 5 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 6 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd better come round today in a bit more positive mood . |
| 8 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 9 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 10 | The clock face is painted white and so stands out clearly from quite a distance , allowing the time to be easily read . |
| 11 | ‘ It might be hard , ’ she said , ‘ but better to find out now about Tom than later . ’ |
| 12 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 13 | ‘ Not much wandering off above in the convent . ’ |
| 14 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 15 | Do n't forget , we only came down here for a drink . |
| 16 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 18 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 19 | So shop around carefully before investing your cash . |
| 20 | Perhaps going back again to the quality of life , was it a a release valve for the frustration of the places ? |
| 21 | He stopped work long enough to look up directly into her face , then bent his head once more and continued cleaning the skull with neat , precise movements of the knife . |
| 22 | Felt started out 10 years ago and recorded 10 albums before breaking up this week after a final show in their home town , Birmingham , thus concluding the curious master-plan that was apparently drawn up early in their career by the band 's singer and song-writer , who is known simply as Lawrence . |
| 23 | and a balcony big enough to fit out maybe with a table and a parasol . |
| 24 | She pushed past Julie Ndobe , grabbing a medkit from the woman 's hands , and running further into the smoke , only to fetch up hard against a metal barrier . |
| 25 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
| 26 | At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess . |
| 27 | But Michael Barnes is keeping his plans for that celebration time secret — the most important thing right now is getting the Opera House all lit up again for Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 28 | If she wanted a baby , what a good neighbour she would be , if only to keep in well with them : how she would feed her neighbours ' cats , take in her neighbours ' mail , refrain from drunken disturbance ! |
| 29 | Good I 've only found out today about you |
| 30 | Frederick was apparently brought up there with the daughter , Hester , of the new marriage , but he ran away to sea . |