Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had travelled somewhere way up north — Newcastle or something . |
| 2 | An umbrella stand conversation piece , largely fashioned from the remains of some unfortunate denizen of the rainforest in imperial Ilorin , but lately conquered somewhere north of Lagos , was dappled in a garish replica of its native twilight . |
| 3 | The first local Amnesty groups ( the still-running Eltham and Hampstead among them ) were formed only months after the launch in May 1961 . |
| 4 | Most hospitals now have chapels , but many are hidden down corridors and are uninviting . |
| 5 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 6 | We have heard only advertisements for Luigi 's restaurant . |
| 7 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 8 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 9 | In an attempt to provide concise information on this point I have gathered together details of all the surviving English harpsichords from the period 1700–1744 , judging that nothing outside this time span could be relevant to the Mercier picture . |
| 10 | Staff who went to help her thought she had fallen down steps before first-aiders saw her multiple injuries . |
| 11 | The accountant will try to ensure that the band have given enough thought to how long this money is likely to last , and how best to use it until the next payment or earnings are due . |
| 12 | But housing experts and governments just have not given enough thought to the type of building materials that developing countries need . |
| 13 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 14 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 15 | I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to . |
| 16 | AS SOON as I see a screen full of Florida palm fronds , broken down clapboard houses and Cadillacs full of heaving , unhappy women , I know we are in for an Erotic Thriller . |
| 17 | but I have n't , because they have n't , broken down Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales into separate counties . |
| 18 | I started Chisenhall Street on first quarter points , then I would walk along to the next very scruffy part — all broken down garages and yards and things . |
| 19 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 20 | This pathway is again in a dreadful condition with litter , lack of bins and broken down fencing . |
| 21 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 22 | These off-road vans are equipped as ‘ garages on wheels ’ to reach and repair broken down vehicles , enabling anti-poaching patrols to stay mobile . |
| 23 | Net capital disbursements by the World Bank had totalled only $2,100 million , compared with $5,700 million in 1990 . |
| 24 | On April 25 the UNHCR said that it had received only $43,000,000 of the $238,500,000 it had requested as aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 25 | Millions of people throughout the country lived in buildings which were either due for demolition because they were unsafe , or had received only emergency repairs . |
| 26 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 27 | The very low prevalence of seropositivity for HIV antibodies in children aged under 6 is encouraging since these children will have received only blood products that had been treated to inactivate HIV . |
| 28 | But the Money advice Trust , set up in 1990 with the aim of raising £9M in three years towards money advice services , has so far received only £275,000 in cash , although another £349,000 has been pledged and staff have been seconded to the value of £450,000 . |
| 29 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 30 | Of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists , however , I confess to having listed only Iain Banks , Kazuo Ishiguro ( both of whom appeared in the third edition ) and Jeanette Winterson , although I think there is scope too for Will Self , Nicholas Shakespeare and maybe Ben Okri . |