Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late by the time the meal was done and later still when the company rose from the coffee cups in the drawing-room . |
| 2 | This was to encourage people to work through until their department moved and also so that R.S. left the impression of being a caring employer with those who chose redundancy . |
| 3 | I would suggest they look long and hard at the report they have written and even longer and harder in the mirror . |
| 4 | The floors of the church and schoolroom to be washed out when needed and not less than three times a year . |
| 5 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 6 | But it had n't flowered and as far as she could tell , had no intention of doing so . |
| 7 | In 1700 only 7.5 per cent of industrial output other than woollens was exported and as late as 1831 only 7.7 per cent of output other than that of all textiles ( with cotton now well ahead of wool ) and of iron . |
| 8 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened . |
| 10 | The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened . |
| 11 | There is a clear distinction here which is not always understood and sometimes even when it is understood it is deliberately ignored by professionals who explicitly claim ownership as a necessary part of practice . |
| 12 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 13 | In a sense that 's not the real question , that 's not the important question , the really important question as far as I 'm concerned is will I be served and as far as your concerned , will you or are you saved , well it 's , it 's up to you , it 's up to me because he will save you , forever who will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved . |
| 14 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 15 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 16 | Erm one of the best known commentators on the American president , a man called Richard Newstat er who 's occasionally known as Mr Williams because he 's married to er Shirley Williams a clapped-out Social Democratic politician of er yesteryear , erm Richard Newstat once said , well once said many things but er on this particular occasion said that er if you want to know what presidential power is , it is simply the power to persuade and that er when you look for er an American president what you need to look for er is not somebody who is clear minded , far sighted and so on but you need somebody who has the capacity the skill , the talent , to persuade other people to do what he wants them to do . |
| 17 | During 1927 and 1928 , most of the South Metropolitan track was relaid and as far as possible wood-block surfaces were replaced by tar-bound macadam . |
| 18 | The king was determined and rightly so that his collection , now the property of his former subjects , should reflect Chinese rather than European taste . |
| 19 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |