Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 2 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 3 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 4 | Here are some you might like to try , all written from low to high : CGEGCE , CGDGBD , CGDGBE ( called ‘ C wahine ’ ) , DGDF&sharp ; BD ( ‘ G wahine ’ ) and DADF&sharp ; AC&sharp ; ( ‘ D wahine ’ ) . |
| 5 | But he was tiny now , his feet only reached to halfway across the seat , he was only about twelve inches tall . |
| 6 | Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions . |
| 7 | Indeed , compared with all the enthusiasm for the " special relationship " necessarily expressed in public by numerous British spokesmen between the 1940s and the 1990s , Gaitskell 's cool summary is as broadly representative of British feelings and thinking as one is likely to find . |
| 8 | If you 're going to get picked up in bars and hand it out free on the first date , you 'd better check in regular at St Stephen 's . ’ |
| 9 | The Reuss valley floor is comparatively wide and level for a considerable stretch south of Altdorf ( 447m , 1,466ft above sea level ) and only begins to narrow at Erstfeld ( 472m , 1,548ft ) , by which point the new motorway N2 has parted company with the old Gotthard road No 2 as well as the railway , having crossed to the west bank of the river . |
| 10 | Further information , after all aspects of the Society , including classes of membership , which effectively range from active to corresponding , can be obtained from the Secretary , Mrs B. I. Pope , 95 Northolt Avenue , Bishop 's Stortford , Herts CM23 5DS . |
| 11 | Has the press been persistently biased against Labour since 1945 ? |
| 12 | This helped to deal a crippling blow to the preformationist theory , which argued that all parts of a living organism are already formed in miniature in the seed or egg from which it comes . |
| 13 | Why did n't he just vomit in public like some of his colleagues ? |
| 14 | In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be . |
| 15 | The so-called Tory flagship council among the metropolitan boroughs , Bradford , was comfortably won by Labour with an above average swing of 7.4% since 1988 . |
| 16 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 17 | Fletcher 's book was not to appear in Russian for another fifty-seven years . |
| 18 | The Austrian branch of the Habsburgs continued to give precedence to the representatives of its Spanish relatives , the pope insisted on treating the French and Spanish ambassadors in Rome as equals , and the Spanish government ordered its diplomats not to appear in public with a French one of equal rank , and thus avoid giving way to him . |
| 19 | If the £6.5 million target was not met in full by 5pm , it would be too late . |
| 20 | Her lungs would be full of stale air that she could n't release , while her brain was already filling with static from lack of the same . |
| 21 | Paul Biya did not appear in public for over six months , and his position has never fully recovered in spite of winning a new term in the March 1988 presidential election . |
| 22 | Aruba plans to break away from the rest of the Netherlands ' West Indies , because it does not like to yoked to Curacao . |
| 23 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 24 | But I mean , she 's probably done something like that and she 's just got over dramatic about it ! |
| 25 | In normal oesophageal mucosa the distribution of EGF does not alter from proximal to distal oesophagus . |
| 26 | CCa did not return to normal in 2 patients after 3 treatments . |
| 27 | Frank obviously want to travel to the US next year and to be in contention he — has — to play first team football — Frank was cited today as not beeing to impressed with Deano : ’ 2 goals in 12 matches in England is not at all impressive ; the chances keep coming all the time in games over here ’ . |
| 28 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 29 | The parents bought them all one day , the whole lot of them , and we all just played like mad in the house all the time . |
| 30 | TAGH did not compete with binding of labelled EGF , or start down regulation of the EGF receptor on the isolated cells ( Table V ) . |