Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his father , Erlend , and his uncle , Paul , got on well together as joint earls of Orkney , their sons became rivals and enemies . |
| 2 | If it goes on any longer than that they get bored and spoil what they 've done . |
| 3 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 4 | I like the fact that we sold enough records to go on there even if the event was a little embarrassing . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 6 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 7 | The outer scales lifted in the process of penetration are not always smoothed down again completely when you change hair colour or texture , and this causes porosity . |
| 8 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 11 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 12 | After 0/30 , it is not wise to go down as far as 6C or 30C . |
| 13 | It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat . |
| 14 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 15 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 16 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 17 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 18 | If you want to warm rooms in very cold temperatures set the heating to come on earlier rather than turning it up higher . |
| 19 | But it 's that figure there that I think we need to concentrate on as far as good bonuses are concerned . |
| 20 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 21 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 22 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 23 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 24 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | Jack 's house will fall over very easily because the walls are not vertical . |
| 26 | ‘ However , I can promise our customers that we will be putting everything into opening up as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 28 | An Irish Development Authority spokesman said that it was continuing the battle for a complete retention of Galway , and arguing that ‘ Ireland , under any independent analysis , stands up more strongly than Scotland . ’ |
| 29 | Ironically , this film stands up better today than many of its male social realist counterparts . |
| 30 | Dreadnought 's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her . |