Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 2 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 3 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 4 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes I 'd have to go off and strip off to fight straight after a caddying session , off the course , drop the bag and on to the fairground . |
| 6 | Army training has also changed dramatically as a result of the Ulster conflict . |
| 7 | The Government has also backpedalled furiously from a threat made last week by the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to scupper the bill if the vote on the social chapter was lost . |
| 8 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 9 | It has now opened again as a private one . |
| 10 | PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis . |
| 11 | Silvestri 's role will be to bring focus to a task that Sun has previously handled only on an ad hoc basis . |
| 12 | What has actually happened effectively as a result of the massive exchange movements of 1984 and early 1985 is that an American citizen can now go anywhere in the world and purchase goods for the same price abroad as he can at home . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 'd better rest here for a while , ’ she followed him out of the kitchen and into the sitting-room to tell him . |
| 14 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 15 | The judge has also decided not to go ahead with a preliminary trial on two key issues in the case , scheduled to begin on January 15 , which would have broken new legal ground . |
| 16 | He presided over a pre-trial review when it was decided not to go ahead with a case against a babysitter accused of assaulting seven children . |
| 17 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 18 | He admitted last night : ‘ We will do well to come away with a point this time . |
| 19 | RESIDENTS on a Londonderry housing estate tracked two men they had earlier seen allegedly acting suspiciously at a car used by a Ministry of Defence worker , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 21 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 22 | The 27-year-old fashion queen ends up looking more like a cat burglar than a catwalk model in the 30-second ad . |
| 23 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 24 | She followed the contours of his hairline to the almost kiss curl that hung over one of his eyes , the eye she could see now staring intelligently at a group of men — Englishmen like himself — discussing the prospects of the English team . |
| 25 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 26 | 1971 ) , the original convergence thesis itself has become somewhat modified away from an emphasis on a trend towards uniformity . |
| 27 | A typical pattern in psychosomatic illness is for the disease to fluctuate with periods when the symptoms disappear only to return again at a later date . |
| 28 | Even by the 1980s , seminar teaching had found little hold there despite a decreasing proportion of staff to students . |
| 29 | With some misgivings , Wolfgang settled down to work steadily at a stream of compositions , beginning with the Italian serenata Il sogno di Scipione ( Scipio 's Dream ) for the ceremonial enthronement of the new archbishop on 14 March 1772 . |
| 30 | Stopping the scarlet screamer on the apron we set the park brake despite a handbook note not to do so after a sortie , since this only applies to heavy-footed Gauls in hot countries . |