Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I hope he will eventually dip back into that area .
2 The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah .
3 They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time .
4 The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality .
5 ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged .
6 ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ?
7 There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all .
8 The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry .
9 I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 .
10 Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 .
11 Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water .
12 In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites .
13 Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods .
14 The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero .
15 If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences .
16 Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner .
17 It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother .
18 The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that .
19 He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’
20 The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 .
21 Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting .
22 They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement .
23 I 'd rather hang about with some tasty birds like those ones in Bananarama .
24 I 'd rather hang about with some tasty birds like those ones in Bananarama .
25 He was eventually picked up by another driver .
26 Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation .
27 This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) .
28 In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces .
29 The main Moslem militias had all withdrawn well before this deadline , ( Druse ) Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) fighters moving south to their Chouf mountain stronghold , and the rival Shia groups Amal and Hezbollah deploying even further south to the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills and other areas bordering Israel 's self-declared " security zone " .
30 Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West .
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