Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 2 | right has it still gone up ? |
| 3 | The government in response merely restated its previously declared position . |
| 4 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 5 | An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition . |
| 6 | So has he all gone to his gr mother 's at Christmas ? |
| 7 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 8 | Other detachments headed south from northern , rebel-held cities in an advance on Madrid , only to find themselves humiliatingly held by urban militia groups in the Guadarrama mountains north of the city . |
| 9 | I hope that you very much enjoy your well earned rest and that Christmas is a happy time for you and your family . |
| 10 | On the outbreak of hostilities with Russia , he intended to open an immediate offensive with the object of swiftly crushing her hastily mobilized armies . |
| 11 | Only in cases involving ethnic groups does it suddenly forget its much advertised opposition to censorship and abandon its crusading zeal to defend the public 's ‘ right to know ’ . |
| 12 | I began thus for to assent both to them and diverse of my friends here at home and not less to an inward prompting which daily now grew upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die . ’ |
| 13 | Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal . |
| 14 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 15 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 16 | This was only undoing her newly formed resolution to hate him . |
| 17 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 18 | So had he ever considered singing as a career ? |
| 19 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 20 | How long have you actually lived in this cottage Mr Chatfield ? |
| 21 | Well how long have you actually had the parrot . |
| 22 | Expansione the financial daily excuse me also increased its circulation once again and its profits . |
| 23 | Please make sure that you only have one clear circled point on the scale for every person . ’ |
| 24 | Not only have we enormously increased the standard to which schools and public buildings are cleaned , as a result of compulsory competitive tendering , but we have saved ratepayers and community charge payers huge amounts of money . |
| 25 | Not only have I never handled any drug stronger than an aspirin , but discretion and confidentiality are an integral part of my job . |
| 26 | So have you still got it have you ? |
| 27 | So have you always lived in this house ? |
| 28 | Er to crash a er right let me just read er right er okay . |
| 29 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 30 | It is not necessary to try to change your mental characteristics directly , to somehow think yourself better controlled . |