Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 2 | I tend to sit there going funny colours . |
| 3 | ‘ Meredith , ’ he said , sounding irritable , ‘ I do n't want to stand here discussing this . |
| 4 | The board promoted tourism through five counties but ceased trading yesterday leaving forty five people out of work . |
| 5 | The resistance to the idea of one-way financial support can also be deduced from evidence about the circumstances under which people tried to evade legally defined financial responsibilities to kin . |
| 6 | Odour assessment has developed therefore using sensory methods of analysis , that is measuring human responses to them . |
| 7 | A director of the discount house needs to attend personally to effect this , traditionally complete with top hat . |
| 8 | After all , the hawks do actually eat what they catch and you can see how hard the hawk has to work just to get one square meal . |
| 9 | So far , not a single witness has come forward to throw any light on Joanna 's confused account of her abduction on Tuesday night from outside the Harpenden Leisure Centre where she worked . |
| 10 | Drawbacks : There are no audible signals when the touch-control panel is programmed , so the display needs checking carefully to make sure it is set correctly . |
| 11 | They did not see that the rampant nationalism that had brought Presidents Tudjman and Milosevic to power would so fan the flames of separatism and so reawaken the enmities of 50 years or more , that the compromise that might well have been possible earlier this year and which the European Foreign Ministers have since tried to impose has now become impossible . |
| 12 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 13 | And the means by which it has done so provide another example of the fascination and complexity of adaptation in the natural world . |
| 14 | The pair , running for Liverpool , outclassed the rest of the field , with Dawn running five seconds better than she has done before to record 4 minutes 34.9 seconds and Clare clocking 4–36.6 an improvement of 14 seconds on her previous best . |
| 15 | ‘ Because he was forever making dens in trees , ’ said his nan , who knew this was another , ‘ and one day a big crow flew up and scared him and he lost his hold and fell on to his head and stopped growing so let that be a lesson to you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
| 17 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 18 | Treating people as if they were not people is not a possibility ; to try to do so requires all the resources of evil which the human mind can muster , but it always breaks down . |
| 19 | Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour . |
| 20 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 21 | There are some whose function has stimulated less comment such as tweezers found in male graves ; if it were accepted that they were primarily depilatory we must consider their role in the alteration of the physical appearance of men and women as a cultural trait . |
| 22 | The British government has attempted virtually to nullify this definition of military objectives by stating its ‘ understanding ’ that ‘ a specific area of land ’ may be a military objective . |
| 23 | She has to look for new friends amongst the ranks of the unattached like herself ; and until she has recovered sufficiently to become interested in organising her social life to the best advantage , her opportunities to continue to enjoy the pleasures of mixed company may be very limited . |
| 24 | Syria 's response that it ‘ can not control what goes on in the Bekaa ’ and that Turkey ‘ should first try to solve the Kurdish problem within its own borders ’ has served only to confirm Turkish suspicions about Syrian intentions . |
| 25 | Don Powell has gone there to grow fresh food for around six hundred abandoned children . |
| 26 | The National Council for Civil Liberties is a non-partisan , voluntary organisation which has campaigned effectively to defend this country 's freedom for over 50 years . |
| 27 | Microsoft has worked tirelessly to implement user-friendly Windows applications which you could come under the banner of ‘ enabling technology ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Davies has worked hard to affiliate 15 TGWU branches , and has written a pamphlet attacking Mr Field 's views on social policy . |
| 29 | has worked hard to provide up-to-date materials , covering a wide range of topics and countries ; the Centre is well organised and ‘ accessible ’ . |
| 30 | Peter , the officer-in-charge , has worked hard to make sure that new staff have the right sort of attitude before they are appointed . |