Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused outright the advice of his ‘ betters ’ , either by alienating them in a flash of rage or by stubbornly preferring not to go along with them ; rather like Melville 's eponymous character Bartleby . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 3 | I could easily stay here to help out in the public , if you like . ’ |
| 4 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 5 | New pop is extrovert , forever shaping up to splash down in supposedly ‘ unstirred ’ regions , forever dramatizing itself against a torpid and shockable opposition — the grown-ups , straights , squares , ‘ the dullards ’ . |
| 6 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 7 | Surveys are however different from tests in their objective : a test is usually carried out to find out about an individual , a survey is carried out to find out about an issue which is across people . |
| 8 | Kevin Ball , making his first appearance since being helped off the field in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich with a knee injury , started tentatively but gradually settled down to come up with his usual solid , no-nonsense performance . |
| 9 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 10 | The doppelganger stands right behind its owner and always moves swiftly to dodge out of sight . |
| 11 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 12 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 13 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |
| 14 | You must also learn how to clean up after yourselves . |
| 15 | Then came back to sign on at Westminster Evening Institute for a University extra-mural course in Sociology . |
| 16 | He gave her a hard-eyed stare , then swung away to look out of the window . |
| 17 | The judges then went on to get through to the hub of the whole matter : |
| 18 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 19 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 20 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |