Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism .
2 Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied .
3 Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform .
4 CASS was also encouraging the development of part-time degrees , a policy which won an expression of DES approval for these and other CNAA efforts in this direction , since they would appeal to married women wishing to return to study ( and presumably helping to solve a shortage of school teachers ) .
5 I 'm still sufficiently optimistic about the country in which we live to suppose that most of us here in Scotland would vastly prefer to pay a little more income tax , than have the least advantaged of our fellows dropped further into poverty .
6 I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people .
7 In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ .
8 ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea .
9 After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack .
10 Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad .
11 Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad .
12 But this omission is a consequence of my claim that individualism is fundamentally designed to sustain a conception of individuals as agents .
13 LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer .
14 Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis .
15 Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it .
16 In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed .
17 Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy .
18 There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat .
19 The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools .
20 From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup .
21 But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election .
22 And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders .
23 As Dysart 's employee and Mallender 's daughter , who could be better placed to smell a rat ? ’
24 Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario .
25 So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long .
26 Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year .
27 The last delivery from the Royal Oak Colliery in South Wales had amounted to only half the tonnage ordered the rest apparently diverted to fulfil a similar order from another preserved railway .
28 Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way .
29 This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it .
30 ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes .
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