Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 2 | The virus is most effectively passed on through blood or semen , and has to enter the bloodstream to become established . |
| 3 | Right so to get back to what I gave you , you 'll take three off . |
| 4 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 5 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 6 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 7 | If you thought that era had been long since killed off by the replacement of British wrestling on our screens by the outrageous comic-book exploits of the Americans , you would be horribly wrong . |
| 8 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 9 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 10 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 11 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 12 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 13 | Small coats with hoods , sent to the family from abroad , and long since grown out of , were taken away , together with twenty-eight videos . |
| 14 | She had long since grown out of her disco dingbat phase . |
| 15 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 16 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 17 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 18 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 19 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 20 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted . |
| 22 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 23 | Would Merymose , who had been so badly let down by Akhenaten himself , be able to feel any sympathy at all ? |
| 24 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 25 | You wo n't touch me , you have n't done a thing for this goddam exhibition you were so all fired up about , and it 's OK ? |
| 26 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 29 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 30 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |