Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 2 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 3 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 4 | We have successfully carried out this procedure in 18 patients . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 6 | I myself have long given up any hope of a more permanent relationship . ’ |
| 7 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 8 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 9 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean we do get people who come in on the sort of the Friday morning and they 've already got their done their business perhaps sought out professional advice elsewhere |
| 11 | Chris was stunning in a green Chinese-style gown with a long slit up one side . |
| 12 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm all bunged up this morning . |
| 14 | As to costs if proceedings are wrongly brought in High Court — see above . |
| 15 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 16 | As they did not regard the existing ‘ Democratic Republic ’ as representative of the people of Annam and Tonkin ( the question of Cochinchina tended not to be raised ) this obviously ruled out serious negotiation . |
| 17 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 18 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 19 | The three have only taken up American pool , which uses larger pockets and larger balls than the British version , a matter of eight months ago . |
| 20 | Later theoretical developments of psychoanalysis have been by analysts who have largely given up this second requirement of a theoretical conceptualization , yet it was a fundamental one for Freud himself . |
| 21 | These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing . |
| 22 | We have not given up that demand . |
| 23 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 24 | Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : — |
| 25 | The two main additional floors are largely carried on new masonry crosswalls which are , in turn , carried on their own new strip-footing foundations . |
| 26 | ‘ If it 's not sorted out this week I will pull the plug . ’ |
| 27 | The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor . |
| 28 | Short hypotheses looked more promising than long ones simply because more of their score was an estimate ; they had not picked up actual shortfall . |
| 29 | ‘ The Serious Crime Squad come down , and sometimes I 'm told when they 're on my patch , most times I 'm not , they keep the Manor House under observation , on and off , but they 've not picked up any scent of him . |
| 30 | It has not turned out that way , of course . |