Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 2 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 3 | He is alive and under follow up surgery was not deemed appropriate due to his generally weak condition . |
| 4 | She came back to collect her when she was three but after finding out the toddler was being beaten and burnt , social workers intervened and Natasha was taken back to the safety of the orphanage . |
| 5 | We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper . |
| 6 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 7 | But group turnover fell 10 per cent to £560.7 million , profits after interest plunged by 40 per cent to £5.6 million and after writing off £2 million in exceptional charges , mainly redundancy costs , profits before tax dived by 61 per cent to £3.6 million , for their fifth consecutive year of decline . |