Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No. 16 , which because of the poor condition of its body , had already been re-pillared with five windows , was sent to Hendon in August or September 1928 , stripped right down and rebuilt with flush sides , two and one reversible cushioned seats inside and a number of other improvements . |
| 2 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 3 | This is particularly so when it is remembered that the working parties are serviced by the DES , whose influence on a group of disparate experts meeting only intermittently and working under great pressure , is very considerable indeed . |
| 4 | It can come much earlier and lead to physical and mental disability . |
| 5 | To voters who had lost their party moorings , who focused on political matters only spasmodically and relied on fleeting impressions derived from television , Ronald Reagan proved to have exceptional appeal . |
| 6 | We all sat down together again and chatted in general about falconry , and in particular about equipment and how to put it on correctly ; how to hold the bird properly ; different methods of training a bird ; the various illnesses and complaints they suffer from and how to cure them ; and simply how to take good care of birds . |
| 7 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 8 | They were several hundred yards apart and hidden from each other by a bend in the road , and they were both set well back and reached by private tracks which were better maintained than the road itself . |
| 9 | Your rock haul will feature Nirvana 's first album , Bleach — not widely available here before and packed with great tracks such as Blew and Floyd The Barber . |
| 10 | According to UNICEF , about a million babies a year die because their mothers stop breast feeding too soon and switch to dried milk substitutes — without access to clean water for mixing . |
| 11 | He sat very still and spoke with quiet ferocity . |
| 12 | The outline of such an axe can be measured very precisely and processed by various techniques of coordinate geometry ( including , incidentally , one originally invented by marine engineers to measure the shape of ship hulls ) to give a final mathematical ‘ fingerprint ’ of the axe 's shape . |