Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 3 the security forces successfully carried out a daring mission to remove wounded soldiers from the Fort in Jaffna town , under siege since mid-June . |
| 2 | If a client has successfully carried out a difficult homework task the group can reinforce this success more powerfully than a therapist alone . |
| 3 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 4 | Oh , my dear — ’ Alison suddenly reached out a long brown arm . |
| 5 | He had been in the Little Chef restaurant in Bramley , near Rotherham , south Yorkshire , on Wednesday night , when a man suddenly pulled out a double- barrelled shotgun . |
| 6 | Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform . |
| 7 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 8 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 9 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |
| 10 | Right , I mean , you you might find a client whose perhaps taken out a further mortgage , for , you know , some house improvements or something , |
| 11 | The pair also apparently worked out a new business model whose pricing is sensitive to the constraints placed on a software only company . |
| 12 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 13 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 14 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 15 | Muddiman , however , had meanwhile built up a lucrative sideline by sending handwritten news reports to private correspondents , which could include items on parliamentary proceedings which were forbidden in print . |
| 16 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 17 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 18 | It was nip and tuck up to 7-7 before Best opened up a 12-9 lead . |
| 19 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 20 | The book has already sold out a sixth edition . |
| 21 | Officers have already drawn up a new code of standards for landlords . |
| 22 | If you have already thought up a sensible solution to my problems , that puts you one up on me as I was then , because I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've already forked out a small fortune in out of court settlements ; and the McEd boy — his father is creating a real stink . ’ |
| 24 | As Stephen had already laid out a substantial sum on placing the order , he was damned if he was going to write it off . |
| 25 | Logic Promotions , those people who do the Number One range of instrument care products — fingerboard oil , and so on — have just brought out a new set of unusual and rather delectable guitar cables . |
| 26 | That 's why Haliborange have just brought out a new Multivitamin Liquid containing essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs . |
| 27 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 28 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 29 | And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe . |
| 30 | The council has already set up a working party on resists , chaired by Ron Lawes . |