Example sentences of "[prep] completely [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceaucescu was unable to completely smother centuries of tradition . |
| 2 | She felt the sickness growing , welling hard and hot in her stomach , but not hot enough to completely burn away the lingering echoes of passion , and she was filled with shame . |
| 3 | However , it is completely unreasonable to expect a male horse which has learnt the social behaviour of a stallion to completely change its habits , behaviour , and personality because it is castrated . |
| 4 | The graft had induced the host tissues adjacent to it to completely change their fate and form a second embryo in relation to the graft , and for this reason it was called the organizer . |
| 5 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 6 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 7 | Of course , it 's a lot easier to turn through shallow angles than to completely change direction , and the slower you 're going obviously enhances your rotation capabilities . |
| 8 | My worry ( hehe ) is that when he grows up into a ‘ proper ’ man ( with proper stubble and no stupid necklace thing ) , and puts on the weight — hed have to completely change his game . |
| 9 | Sometimes in the process they decide to let go of old destructive relationships or to completely change their career . |
| 10 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 11 | But I plan over the next year to completely renew my rig ; there are just too many hip new things . |
| 12 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 13 | However , many breweries have taken advantage of such requirements to completely remodel their historic pubs . |
| 14 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 15 | It could certainly take us years to completely assimilate and comprehend them . |
| 16 | He writes : ‘ The Women 's Front , and other equal rights fanatics chose to completely disregard … a small difference . |
| 17 | This is a nice idea but naturally it is impossible to completely separate mathematical and non-mathematical routines , and there are overheads such as writing to the screen which can affect the results . |
| 18 | A YOU probably wo n't be able to completely eliminate it , but you can certainly reduce it . |
| 19 | To completely eliminate any risk of static work on an earthed metal surface ( the kitchen drainer will do ) or wear a metal bracelet connected by a flexible wire to any bare earthed metal such as a central heating pipe . |
| 20 | Not that Uttley was allowed to completely forget his rugby past — also competing is fellow ‘ crumbly ’ Andy Ripley who , after taking the Ergo up in recent months , almost overtook Uttley at a recent head-to-head in a London gymnasium . |
| 21 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 22 | Today the water at Bucklebury Ford is deep enough to completely submerge this little girl . |
| 23 | It was impossible to completely check the global effects of each alteration to the file . |
| 24 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 25 | They can be used to completely encompass a big warren system , they can be used to divide up areas of woodland and they can be operated both at night and by day when conditions are favourable . |
| 26 | The only way in which one could incorporate such fine-grained information from the Text710 would be to completely re-tag the LOB corpus . |
| 27 | Wood floors of all types need to be laid on a perfectly level floor , so you may need to completely cover it with hardboard , or in more extreme cases , chipboard , before laying the floor . |
| 28 | Using fleece covers to completely cover a crop down to the ground will significantly improve water retention by the soil . |
| 29 | If there comes a time when it is necessary to completely dismantle your aquarium , the fish can be temporarily housed in a smaller aquarium , provided there is a good supply of oxygen . |
| 30 | Accessories sold with the windows usually include remote controls , and roller and Venetian blinds in an assortment of colours , as well as blackout blinds ( to completely exclude light ) , and exterior blinds ( to reduce solar heat gain ) . |