Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 2 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 3 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 4 | Myself , I have much enjoyed having you talk to me . ’ |
| 5 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I was left to ponder whether to have healing or not to have healing , and so concerned did I become that in the end , a wise man from the Quakers was summoned to give a judgement of Solomon . |
| 7 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 8 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 9 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 10 | In fact , so accomplished had he become that he changed his career from lorry driver to architectural joiner , and kitchens became a part of his stock in trade . |
| 11 | You 've only got to have them cleaned ! |
| 12 | Mrs Chafer , who has been divorced since the late Seventies , said the prince came to Pammy Jane 's rescue after the divorce and personally offered to let her use one of his tied cottages . |
| 13 | In addition to providing a much needed resource you want to enhance the school 's reputation , gain publicity , strengthen the school 's identity or link parents more closely to the school . |
| 14 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 15 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 16 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 17 | Darren Kerry bought his house for sixty three thousand pounds with two brothers but after losing his job he fell behind with his mortage payments … he begged Citibank , with whom he had the loan to reduce the payment … he even found a buyer prepared to pay sixty three thousand pounds … but with interest he then owed sixty five thousand pounds … and Citibank apparently refused to allow him to sell it … |
| 18 | Davidson and the General kept hinting that I would be much better off without it , but I was terrified that without it I should never be able to fly again , so refused to let them touch it . |
| 19 | As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place . |
| 20 | The recent shouting matches between Charles and Diana , and the revelations about Fergie and her men friends have upset her dreadfully , but have only served to strengthen her resolve that her own deep love for her children must be put aside in order to protect the royal heritage she has always made her priority . |
| 21 | 2 This only served to make us redouble our efforts and two years later we proved it was possible . |
| 22 | If she had only tried to make him see … |
| 23 | Mm , they told me though that there 's too much money coming in the house , you , you , you 're only allowed to have I think it 's about sixty something |
| 24 | Dolly would have felt less reassured had she known Melody was staying at the navvies ' camp . |
| 25 | Not since she had walked down her path on that evening when it had all begun had she felt such a sure and unmistakeable feeling of threat and menace . |
| 26 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 27 | There not offices best calculated to enable us to perform effectively . |
| 28 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 29 | Carrington had already arranged to have it carted away as soon as possible by a salvage unit , and dumped at the old railway sidings at Carluke . |
| 30 | She has finally stopped saying she 's got , she 's had office experience . |