Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 3 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 4 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 5 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 6 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 7 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 8 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 9 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 10 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 11 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 12 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 13 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 14 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 15 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 16 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 17 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 18 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 19 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 20 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 21 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 22 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 23 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 24 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 25 | Knowing my luck I 'll only be able to afford a weekend break in Bognor Regis , especially as my measly wage has only gone up by fourpence in the last two years . |
| 26 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 27 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 28 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 29 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 30 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |