Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suddenly became aware of Kegan beside him , sharply tugging at the edge of his jacket , and turned to stare at him , blotches of anger flaming in his cheeks . |
| 2 | Doctors and pharmacists all heard first of Opren 's suspension from the media or from patients long before Goldberg 's letter arrived . |
| 3 | Tall , handsome , and urbane , Price swiftly became one of Britain 's leading international film stars . |
| 4 | Or perhaps one of these workaholics who only became aware of difficulties in their marriage when their wives had packed their bags and left their goodbye note on the mantelpiece ? |
| 5 | The envelope contained a ‘ Big Mouth Strikes Again ’ label with the words AND SO SAY ALL OF US scrawled strangely on the other side . |
| 6 | The package was flexible enough to meet all of Intergraph 's requirements , and the company was also impressed by the size of the supplier . |
| 7 | But The Soldier 's Tale naturally occupied most of John 's energies . |
| 8 | By the end of the year the factory in Wimmis , canton Berne , will be able to recycle around 2,000 tonnes of household batteries a year ( enough to process all of Switzerland 's discarded batteries ) . |
| 9 | It is tax efficient since premiums invested in a pension not only grow free of tax but also qualify for full tax relief . |
| 10 | Huddersfield only made certain of victory in the 85th minute when Iffy Onuora grabbed his second with a simple tap in after good work by Nigel Callaghan and Iwan Roberts . |
| 11 | Arthur Marshall facetiously reviews dozens of schoolgirls books . ’ |
| 12 | The path suddenly seemed full of men . |
| 13 | At present waste is only collected free of charge from churches and charitable organisations . |
| 14 | Veins convulse everywhere in my arm , so shot full of liquid I am sure they will burst . |
| 15 | This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining . |
| 16 | The local party leader in Shanghai , Jiang Zemin , attempted to deter the first demonstration by personally addressing thousands of students at the Jiaotong campus on 19 December , Jiang was a technocrat and moderniser whose future success in the party seemed certain . |
| 17 | Aldfrith , king possibly but no longer certainly of Lindsey , only witnesses one of Offa 's charters and that after c . |
| 18 | One of the problems for police investigating the crimes is that horses can be stolen in one part of the country and then swiftly transported hundreds of miles away , or even overseas . |
| 19 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 20 | Kylie thinks she 's Lolita , Morrissey 's currently trying to ignore a hideous truth dark enough to match that of Dorian Gray , and Bob Geldof was Jesus Christ before breakfast . |
| 21 | It bordered the much reduced archbishopric of Ohrid on the south , but Tetovo and Skopje were within its jurisdiction . |
| 22 | Tuathal said , ‘ We shall only have two-thirds of Siward 's force . |
| 23 | He only broke clear of Japan 's Koichi Morishita in the last mile and won in 2 hrs , 13 mins 23 secs . |
| 24 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 25 | It was Lionel Dunbar who inadvertently solved two of Harry 's problems for him . |
| 26 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 27 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 28 | Juliet could n't understand why she suddenly felt suspicious of Sara Calvert . |
| 29 | That ribbon of distress had knotted itself about her , tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food . |
| 30 | This material , ready mixed , possibly on the instructions of a computer , and hardened with ingenious new chemicals , daily changes millions of lives . |