Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 2 | In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur . |
| 3 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 4 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 5 | We have considered so far the daily rhythms of humans in health . |
| 6 | Donaldson , whose previous works have included a biography of the Canadian skier , Steve Podborski , has quizzed just about every available friend , colleague and observer of Villeneuve 's . |
| 7 | She reckoned that she 'd considered just about every possible course . |
| 8 | Two Russian seamen died but 80 crew members were rescued yesterday when a Soviet fish factory ship caught fire in the Bay of Biscay , the British coastguard said . |
| 9 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 10 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 11 | The new provinces occupied pretty much the same areas as they do today . |
| 12 | If the product is a high-quality , high-cost item , then distribution costs will probably represent a small proportion of total costs of manufacturing and marketing it , and so physical distribution may be considered very much a secondary issue . |
| 13 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 14 | Only in Kempe 's noted version on EMI ( 2/88 ) have I felt so strongly the main attributes of Lohengrin : here Robert Heger , the very epitome of the Kapellmeister manner at its best , give to the many passages of formal utterance a grandeur and intensity so often missing in studio performances , culminating in a magnificent outpouring at the final greeting to Elsa in Act 2 . |
| 15 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 16 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 17 | Fry has done just about every other job at Barnet , including cleaning out the toilets , so the boardroom would seem a natural progression . |
| 18 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 19 | Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself . |
| 20 | I mean you do n't see any school chu , I mean I have n't seen hardly any the odd one or two since I left school all those years ago . |
| 21 | On a text spreadsheet though , you ca n't draw things , but er , you could use some letters positioned roughly where the different parts of the spreadsheet are . |
| 22 | I mean a ward is going to be seen as rather a big area , when within wards there are priority areas . |
| 23 | THE future of Alan Bond 's shaky worldwide brewing , property and media empire may be decided today when the Australian courts are expected to rule on whether to appoint a receiver to the three crucial group companies . |
| 24 | And they would collected maybe maybe a hundred and fifty pound for the season for travelling round . |
| 25 | In recent years , nothing has twisted and turned quite like the British housing market . |
| 26 | Despite Thursday 's show of petulance at Old Trafford when he kicked over a couple of stumps and a comparative lack of first-class wickets this season , Foster has moved steadily up the fast bowling pecking order . |
| 27 | Despite Thursday 's show of petulance at Old Trafford and a comparative lack of first-class wickets this season , Foster has moved steadily up the fast bowling pecking order . |
| 28 | The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful . |
| 29 | The classical phase of station-building was overtaken in Britain by the Italian villa style , which became so popular , particularly for country stations , by 1844 that the Illustrated London News could say ‘ the style has been called Italian ; it might be designated more properly an English railway style ’ . |
| 30 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |