Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims . |
| 2 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 3 | The other area was er the area of er tour operators and allocations because as you know holidays was not one of your accounts and we wandered in there only to find that they 'd got allocations and business was |
| 4 | Follow-up research has shown that 95% of all successful course members found at least hourly paid part-time teaching posts either after completion of the course or increasingly during the course . |
| 5 | They include both operatives and staff specialists such as engineers in the same circle , oriented towards not only reducing the wastage rate but also making technological and process improvements . |
| 6 | The problem arose of how best to characterize the booklet for teachers . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't think I came over here just to say good morning , do you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Silly sausage , ’ he teased , and , although she carried on studying to complete her A levels , when Fabia left school she seemed to just naturally fill the niche that was tailor-made for her in feeding and exercising the dogs and giving an extra helping of love and attention to the animals who needed it . |
| 9 | We seemed to only just muster up enough energy to go out on stage and play that day , and after the show was done we were exhausted . |
| 10 | But she 'd at least enough to pay her board . |
| 11 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 12 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 13 | It was a nostalgic occasion , made even more emotional by the memory of the fifteen hundred men who flew from here never to return . |
| 14 | The Chairman of the Board was due to be appointed at the end of last month , and is expected ( according to the old ‘ rules ’ ) to be the Christian Democrat Gian Luigi Rondi ( who admitted to not even knowing who Francis Bacon was ) , the last one having been a Socialist , the architect Paolo Portoghesi . |
| 15 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 16 | Furthermore , Engels argues , marriage and the family — these ideas which Victorians thought of as peculiarly linked with private life and as having nothing to do with political and economic life — are in reality intimately associated with it . |
| 17 | It was reputedly neither fit for man nor beast ; ‘ reputedly ’ because few people who went in there ever came out to tell the tale . |
| 18 | Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench . |
| 19 | And he went on more explicitly to speak of that period ‘ some ten or even twenty years ago . ’ |
| 20 | She also went at least once to see Dr Hensman . |
| 21 | But not many poems felt at all right to do out loud . |
| 22 | The theories looked at thus far have moved away from the view of the criminal as clearly distinguishable from the non-criminal . |
| 23 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 24 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 25 | The children under eleven I spoke to almost invariably had a sense of inferiority similar to that of a colonised people . |
| 26 | The instructors were all trained in the UK and could not have been more helpful when I asked at very short notice whether I could fly their Archer for £34 . |
| 27 | He paused for long enough to throw his jacket onto one of the hallway hooks , and called out , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 28 | Mounted on a white horse , he rode into the city which had for so long defied and denied him . |
| 29 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 30 | Many Liberals were deeply unhappy that , in the name of fighting ‘ Prussianism ’ , Britain should adopt precisely the system of compulsory military service whose absence had for so long distinguished the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ from the less fortunate citizens of continental states . |