Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
2 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
3 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
4 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
5 | Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions . |
6 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
7 | The catering manager at Butler 's contract is Neil Patterson — a chef who joined Compass six years ago and has since moved across into management . |
8 | Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America . |
9 | Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him . |
10 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
11 | Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton . |
12 | With funds to invest worth $1 billion and a reputation for picking winners , he can move markets : the gold price has since climbed rapidly by almost $15 , passing $150 an ounce for the first time since October . |
13 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
14 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
15 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
16 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
17 | ‘ Remember , Glenn has only lost twice in seven years , once to lose his title to Jeff Lampkin and the other at heavyweight to Lennox Lewis . |
18 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
19 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
20 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
21 | With little over a year at the helm of BBC Radio Suffolk 's Gardening Club , Ric Staines has nevertheless slipped naturally into the role of host . |
22 | Parents : When they play into wrong hands What can you do if you take an instant dislike to the friend your daughter or son has just brought home from school ? |
23 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
24 | A Kapellmeister of Salzburg , [ Leopold had been appointed Vice-Kapellmeister in February 1763 ] Mozart by name , has just arrived here with two children … |
25 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
26 | He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that . |
27 | Clever Folly , winner of the A F Budge Chase at Cheltenham two years ago , has already scored twice at the track this season but needs fast conditions . |
28 | Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession . |
29 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
30 | ‘ He has already performed well on tour and at Test level . |