Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman . |
2 | It would , however , apparently save both Twyford Down and Oxleas Wood , which the Conservative Government , to its shame , seems determined to destroy . |
3 | The best of all the planned towns are those such as New Winchelsea ( 1288 ) and Salisbury ( 1290 ) which were apparently laid out de novo on previously empty sites from the late eleventh century to the fourteenth century . |
4 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
5 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
6 | In a statement issued on April 9 Akashi warned that he would not rule out UN Security Council action if the Khmers Rouges did not begin co-operating . |
7 | It is not understood how HIV infection can cause illness over such variable periods , when one person is compared to another . |
8 | These people no longer chat up Joe Blow of Idaho : they talk to Wall Street analysts and to serious-money managers across America . |
9 | He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small . |
10 | Carlton Palmer sent make-shift striker Paul Warhurst clear in the 31st minute for an explosive finish that finally removed any Wednesday anxiety . |
11 | She like woke up Monday morning , she there was four empty vodka bottles . |
12 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
13 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
14 | We have also seen how Raman polarization data and gas-phase band contours may be used to make complete assignments of the observed bands to vibrations of particular symmetry species . |
15 | Interest rate fears also drove down London share prices and the FT-SE 100 index of leading shares reversed a 12.5 point gain early in the day to close 6.5 points lower at 2,312.1 . |
16 | Skate giants Santa Cruz also chuck out Cellblock stuff too — these are the replacement truck rubbers they make . |
17 | At the time , she also occupied nearby Brimscombe Mill , carrying on her late husband 's business . |
18 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
19 | Lyall has n't forgotten how Tottenham supremo Venables gave him a job on the scouting staff after he was sacked by West Ham . |
20 | Marie said she 'll write to me and she do n't know where Combe Court is . |
21 | cos it 's Rich Richmond , I do n't know where Richmond Theatre is . |
22 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
23 | Much of the time on the screen he wanders around helplessly in a freshly starched little Dior number looking for a line worth saying . |
24 | And I ca n't phone up WordPerfect Corp and say |
25 | Albert do n't come down Friday night . |
26 | It is n't going to take any risks , Parker said , and has even taken on US software specialists to provide in-depth knowledge of the local market . |
27 | Should they decide to push ahead with the scheme they will then seek more EC funding . |
28 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
29 | The Commissioners reported that north of the Trent there survived only Sherwood Forest , while south of that river there were the New Forest , Aliceholt and Woolmer , and Bere Forests in Hampshire , Windsor Forest in Berkshire , the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , Waltham or Epping Forest in Essex , Whittlewood , Salcey and Rockingham Forests in Northamptonshire , and Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire . |
30 | right , Craig 's just about to beat up Jane man , and he 's hitting her because she 's meant to have taped over something and I 'm taping over even more of it now ! |