Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 2 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 5 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 6 | Having studied painting at St Martin 's School of Art , London , 1951–55 she went on to work variously as a consultant designer , art teacher , illustrator , Joint Board Examiner and raiser of her four children . |
| 7 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 8 | The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence : |
| 9 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 10 | Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore . |
| 11 | In Lakatos 's reply to Kuhn , all turns finally on a distinction between progressive and degenerating research programmes . |
| 12 | The edition of Boswell 's Tour now generally available only refers obliquely to a lack of warmth , and to Boswell 's own ‘ spleen ’ while staying there — all this notwithstanding that the beautiful ( and pregnant ) Lady Macdonald was a cousin of Boswell 's . |
| 13 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 14 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 15 | During 1933 Ian Hope Dundas , Alexander Raven Thomson , A.K. Chesterton and William Joyce all joined either as a result of Mosley 's charismatic personality or convinced by the fascist creed . |
| 16 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 17 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 18 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 19 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 20 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 21 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 22 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 23 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 24 | The idea is very possible , but would be better carried out on a factory produced four door ( which should be available soon ) as adding extra doors and pillars will increase the cost of conversion enormously . |
| 25 | The real success formula became evident from the very beginning a mixture of good humour , innuendo , cliché , double-entendre all mixed together in a cauldron of what was plainly goodwill and a desire for a good time . |
| 26 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The President-elect got straight down to work yesterday with a meeting with the team responsible for easing his passage into power on January 20 . |
| 29 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 30 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |