Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underground economy in every socialist state , however , has always been resolutely capitalist , and so my friend Kurowski and I have come here tonight to find out how the world 's oldest profession is adjusting to the new economic realities . |
| 2 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 3 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 4 | It was , therefore , a proud Rainer Zobel — the Kaiserslautern coach — who said : ‘ My players have done very well to come here and succeed . |
| 5 | Do n't , Debbie usually come in er , Sunday morning , but er what , they 've got somewhere else to go today |
| 6 | Scrap metal was to be used more efficiently to eke out imported steel and scrap , and the shortage of fuel oils would be resolved by resorting to bituminous slate and lignites which , according to Franco , existed " in fabulous quantities " in Spain . |
| 7 | Precedent 2 covers the same type of transaction , but it is drafted more widely to cover not only the supply of goods , but also the supply of work and materials and the supply of services . |
| 8 | Like other Central Europeans who had lived and grumbled under the Habsburgs , Hungarians have had even more to grumble about since . |
| 9 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 10 | While Europe is in the grip of the tightest recession for 50 years , games machines like Nintendo 's Game Boy , Sega 's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx are barely being produced fast enough to keep up with demand . |
| 11 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 12 | Although the unit obviously benefits girls who have tended either not to do very well in school , or who were regular truants , there is a tendency for more scholastically-minded girls to do worse educationally than they would have in school . |
| 13 | Perhaps Jeremy Bates , who with his partner , Neil Broad , were ranked sufficiently highly to go straight into the main draw for the doubles , might have considered the position of his partner a little more sympathetically . |
| 14 | Early potatoes should be sprouted indoors now to go out in spring . |
| 15 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 16 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 17 | I must say you 've taken long enough to do so . ’ |
| 18 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 19 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 20 | It will be very important for you to study the leaflet mentioned above carefully to discover exactly what your parent 's position will be , and if you are in any doubt , ask for an interview with the Medical Social Worker at the hospital or see the Enquiry Clerk at the local Social Security Office . |
| 21 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |