Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 2 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 3 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 4 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 5 | She 's been trapped there as well as the boy . |
| 6 | To balance the tabular ledger the columns should be added across and down and the total debits should equal the total credits . |
| 7 | His work is grouped thematically as well as chronologically in this catalogue : thus the first volume covers the ‘ table ’ sculptures , his strange , sprawling ‘ still life ’ assemblages made to be viewed at waist height , from 1966–78 ; the second and later volumes continue with this idiom , while the substantial Volume III deals with larger scale , outdoor steel sculptures . |
| 8 | Their height is adjustable , and the rudder pedals can be wound fore and aft while the five-point harnesses have lockable inertia reels on their shoulder straps . |
| 9 | Small areas can be exploited intensively and more and more may be capable of being processed ; for example , one plant in Colombia produces pulp , adding tropical hardwoods to long-fibre coniferous chips ( 30% ) . |
| 10 | Violet had moved slowly and cautiously but urged on by her rider , she had breasted the drifts and safely negotiated the lane . |
| 11 | The control and supervision must be done discreetly and quietly and hopefully even without the awareness of those who are being supervised . |
| 12 | Attendance allowance is a tax-free cash benefit for people who are severely disabled physically or mentally and who need a lot of care . |
| 13 | It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts . |
| 14 | There may be only brief glimpses of the rabbit and it must be shot quickly and accurately or the opportunity is lost . |
| 15 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |
| 16 | Everything was done calmly and carefully and Jasmine was progressing nicely under saddle — until the day a different coloured saddlecloth was used . |
| 17 | The world has not seen more than once or twice in all the course of history a literature which has exercised such prodigious influence over the minds of men , over every cast and shade of intellect , as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762 . |
| 18 | The vendors intention to sell will be made public as soon as the circular is sent out , yet no consideration will be payable . |
| 19 | It was said simply and sincerely and Kate followed him up the stairs gladly . |
| 20 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 21 | Several remains of treatment plants can be seen here as well as the quarries themselves . |
| 22 | I tell what is urgent is a message coming down to you , you 've had a delivery team , they 're going to destroy cases of whatever , so that 's urgent , that has to be done there and then because it 's a danger to the public or whatever . |
| 23 | Faults need to be diagnosed quickly and efficiently since quality of steel is increasingly important and mill shutdown costs at least £10,000 per hour . |
| 24 | The importance of this Sunday is being realised more and more as the Churches face the sharp edge of unemployment . |
| 25 | Interestingly Mr D denied that communications was more inclined to encourage students to question conventional wisdom than subjects such as English , saying that ‘ I do n't think academic subjects do … take things for granted ’ and that English looks at how writers are ‘ situated socially and economically and culturally ’ . |
| 26 | The Chinese consider the clenched fist as a weak and vulnerable weapon , to be used rarely and only if it is aimed at a soft part of the body . |
| 27 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 28 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 29 | Children , quite often , who were classed brutally but realistically as orphans and rarely identified . |
| 30 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |