Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] an [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 2 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 3 | Richie had picked up an almost invisible speck and said , ‘ I 'm just this tiny grain of sand . ’ |
| 4 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 5 | His entrance stirred up an even larger excitement , and the crowd surged forward — Mala among them — for a closer look . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , we 've decided to do the chart together , ’ Belinda answered , looking up an impossibly long way to meet his blue gaze as she spoke . |
| 7 | I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence . |
| 8 | With the blessing of both Mr Walesa and senior Catholic churchmen , he is already working to set up an avowedly Christian party . |
| 9 | The result looked like an insidious , grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk . |
| 10 | ‘ Oliver has drawn up an impossibly long list of games , ’ Marjorie said . |
| 11 | Through their writings , I went in my imagination on trips to unknown parts — coral islands , hunting for treasure , discovering oil — joining the Library opened up an entirely new world for me . |
| 12 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 13 | How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own ? |
| 14 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 15 | Reviewing a biography by Phyllis Willmott of social work administrator Geraldine Aves , he threw out an impressively succinct characterisation of the Seebohm Report , which , as one might say at a BASW workshop , I want to share with you . |
| 16 | Teachers ' salaries make up an increasingly large proportion of recurrent budgets , especially at primary level , with other expenditures pared down to almost nothing . |
| 17 | Females make up an even smaller proportion of the prison population in this country , between 3 and 4 per cent at any one time . |
| 18 | The scenery up here has been arresting so far ; now it takes on an unexpectedly serene beauty . |
| 19 | For one critic , the finale of Scriabin 's Fourth Sonata becomes in Gavrilov 's hands ‘ like foaming sunlight ’ and Ravel 's Gaspard takes on an altogether new drama and menace : ‘ suddenly ‘ Ondine ’ has claws , and in ‘ Scarbo ’ the knives were out ’ . |
| 20 | Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets . |
| 21 | Overhead fluorescent lights and mirrored columns prove beyond doubt that M&S have a deal with top Harley Street plastic surgeons — and ‘ Shall I take your bags , madam ? ’ takes on an entirely different meaning . |
| 22 | Overhead fluorescent lights and mirrored columns prove beyond doubt that M & S have a deal with top Harley Street plastic surgeons — and ‘ Shall I take your bags , madam ? ’ takes on an entirely different meaning . |
| 23 | Her frozen limbs were dragged up an impressively wide staircase and then along a hallway . |
| 24 | Pareto calls up an inevitably partial selection of historical evidence to support the view that elites are always present in any social system . |
| 25 | Adults often doodle in order to help themselves concentrate , and as the pencil strays around an apparently irrelevant line , in an apparently different activity — much like this paragraph , come to think of it — we might ask what the mind is doing . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a strong culture of control at AT&T that goes back an awfully long way , ’ observes Charles Heckscher , a labour-relations academic who has advised AT&T on its ambitious plan . |
| 27 | Additionally , even when moderately-stocked , the tank can soon take on an abnormally crowded appearance which may not appeal to everyone . |
| 28 | In turn , the new monarchs tried to build up an economically prosperous bourgeoisie to increase tax revenues and to prevent any reversion to feudal conflicts which would fragment the nation — state . |
| 29 | Metallurgical coal is the major export commodity but thermal coal exports will take up an increasingly large proportion as the huge coal resources in Alberta are developed . |
| 30 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |