Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 3 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 4 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 5 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |
| 6 | Fair enough , but my point is this : if you 're bitten by a pye-dog and the wound becomes infected , is it sensible behaviour to carry on hanging out with pye-dogs ? |
| 7 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 8 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 9 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 10 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 11 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 12 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 13 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 14 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 15 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 16 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 17 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 18 | some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 19 | Some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 20 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 21 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 22 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 23 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 24 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 27 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 28 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 29 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 30 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |