Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | The technology differs fundamentally from the more domestically familiar teletext systems , Ceefax and Oracle ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 3 | But after the second programme Yorkshire Television installed block heaters throughout the house in lieu of a fee , so Low Birk Hatt was heated properly for the very first time . |
| 4 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 5 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 6 | The need for qualified nursing , as opposed to help with housework or companionship , will arise only in the most extreme cases of severe disability ( see Connolly v Camden and Islington AHA [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 250 ; Croke v Wiseman [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 852 ) . |
| 7 | South Africa demonstrably adjusted better to the more disciplined requirements of the longer game after almost two months of the uninterrupted frenzy of the World Cup . |
| 8 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 9 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 10 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 11 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 12 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 13 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 14 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 15 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 16 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 17 | Smiling as she surveyed the posters on the walls of the twins ' bedroom — obviously Peter Rabbit was still popular here in New York ! — she moved on to the much larger main bedroom . |
| 18 | His ships sailed primarily to the East Indies but entered vigorously into the newly opening trade of Australasia , including whaling , sailing more rarely to Africa and the Americas , and occasionally to the Baltic . |
| 19 | Throughout most of the towns of Spain , up till about 1850 , the employers out-weighed the employees , a relationship that changed slowly in the later nineteenth century with the breakdown of local markets in consumer goods . |
| 20 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 21 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 22 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 23 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 24 | [ P. 392 ] Formen contains many of the elements of Marx 's evolutionary theory concerning pre-capitalist systems , and it also contains much about the more immediate origins of capitalism . |
| 25 | It would be much better to choose , not the level where the genus Euphoria is succeeded suddenly by the totally unrelated genus Amnesia ( as in figure 3.4:1 and 2 on left ) , but within a formation of uniform lithology where , for example , the species Abra cadabra ( which really exists ) Passes insensibly into a descendent species or subspecies by a progressive statistical swing in the unit characters . |
| 26 | In any case , as social workers we have to struggle along in the here and now . |
| 27 | And soon it all began to come together in the most wonderful way . |
| 28 | Tragically , these trees are being torn down from the rapidly diminishing rainforests — and are not being replanted . |
| 29 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 30 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |