Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len eventually limped home using a makeshift mast of a saucepan and blanket . |
| 2 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 3 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 4 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 5 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 6 | This sends such orders electronically and simultaneously to many market makers , and so speeds up taking a position in the shares of many different companies . |
| 7 | After selection , both these systems are manually pumped out using a fore-and-aft lever beside one 's right thigh with an extending red-topped handle like a heavy walking stick . |
| 8 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
| 9 | Only five events qualify for inclusion in this study — four individual eruptions , and a series of three closely spaced events in 1902 which together add up to produce a large dust veil . |
| 10 | Enough survives today to give a compelling impression of the extent to which the crown supplied visual evidence to its subjects of the splendour of Scottish monarchy ; the buildings may be small-scale by comparison with those of wealthier kings , but they are also lovely , and imposing , and above all utterly fashionable . |
| 11 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 12 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 13 | You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you . |
| 14 | It was , to his delight , leaking but still seaworthy ; but an interested crowd of MacIans had gathered on the shore , and even Lachlan could see that to row up Kentra Bay to attack Arivegaig , with an audience eagerly running ahead to arrange a warm welcome for him , was scarcely sensible . |
| 15 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 16 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 17 | The panel apparently chose not to have a permanent chairman on two grounds : first because it was believed that subgroups would quickly emerge to focus on particular issues and events and that these would evolve their own arrangements , and secondly to avoid the possibility of particular individuals dominating proceedings . |
| 18 | ‘ Thought its bum was out the window so went outside to have a look . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Before him , ’ he said , ‘ people only knew how to make a grey wine or one that was the colour of straw . ’ |
| 20 | Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see |
| 21 | Spencer naturally did n't want a training aircraft so they came away having bought the Mk XIV , this was January 1979 . |
| 22 | I personally do n't know a lot about it apart from the fact that Arthur Scargill went up there and there was a bit of excitement . |
| 23 | Crazy Ibrahim bouncing off the walls , appearing at the Lebanese Embassy , and you apparently do n't give a damn . |
| 24 | Mixing the metaphors there , but er basically do n't take a risk on one company or one product . |
| 25 | ‘ Ideas alone do not constitute a crime ’ Chinese official |
| 26 | There is no precise definition of a storm but it must be noted that strong winds ( unless storm force ) or heavy rain alone do not constitute a storm . |
| 27 | But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one . |
| 28 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 29 | So do n't give a signal at all . |
| 30 | You would n't let a thief tow away your home — so do n't make a present of your caravan |