Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] completely " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the July 1952 issue of Essays in Criticism a young academic , John Peter , offered " A New Interpretation of the Waste Land " , the gist of which he summarized thus : " At some previous time the speaker has fallen completely — perhaps the right word is irretrievably — in love . |
| 2 | Place over heat until the sugar has dissolved completely . |
| 3 | Lately it has got completely out of hand . |
| 4 | The morning breeze has died completely and my prickly grey shirt attaches to my spine . |
| 5 | Like the legendary Atlantis , the street pattern of the 1840s has become completely submerged by a whole new ball game , several primary schools , and a generous sprinkling of inner-city whin and bashed saplings . |
| 6 | That 's what I mean ; especially now , when it has become completely esoteric and everyone paints , everyone buys it and everyone talks about it . |
| 7 | Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable . |
| 8 | The name Morris has disappeared completely . |
| 9 | Conflicts spread over thousands of years have still not resolved the problems arising from that claim , and justification of it from the scriptures , has proved completely ineffective , and surely this is bound to happen , for the human race , whether in part or as a whole will never meekly submit to having a religion or political system simply thrust upon it . |
| 10 | ‘ The old bag has gone completely batty . ’ |
| 11 | This hot cloth help ease pain , and we put a new hot one on every two hours until the pain has gone completely . ’ |
| 12 | The sense has gone completely here . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't feel quite so bad this morning , but my voice has gone completely . |
| 14 | When it has gone completely , I venture up a flight of stairs in my bare feet to the phone box . |
| 15 | We have been here since 1986 and during that time the town has gone completely down the pan . ’ |
| 16 | But since then the world has gone completely mad and in nineteen ninety , which was the last er time I checked this number , in nineteen ninety federal aid to the states now reaches one hundred billion dollars . |
| 17 | The world has changed completely in a matter of just six months for the engaging Rhodes . |
| 18 | Anne said : ‘ Life has changed completely for us . |
| 19 | I used to do it all , I had complete control of the house , now the situation has changed completely . |
| 20 | In my guts I feel that , even if everything goes the best it possibly can for me , my life has changed completely and forever . |
| 21 | The entire price structure has changed completely — some prices are now higher even than in West Germany . |
| 22 | Sir , In his letter about the price of computer books ( 13th November ) , Christopher Priest seems to have completely missed the point . |
| 23 | ‘ He seems to have completely disappeared . ’ |
| 24 | A few years ago he was pretty effective I 'll admit , but that was almost entirely down to his pace , which he seems to have completely lost since his lengthy ‘ injury ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Differentiation ’ means inquisition , witch-hunting , denunciations , and punishment ( including in some cases expulsion ) of any member who fails to agree completely with the current party line . |
| 26 | That 's it , it 's gone completely now , I thought . |
| 27 | ‘ My head 's gone completely . |
| 28 | She hangs on , because her mind 's gone completely . |
| 29 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 30 | I mean it 's not worth going back until er it 's gone completely . |