Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would only have grown up and become Boy Scouts . |
| 2 | In the Mirabeau Precinct she 'd only get pushed around and ignored . |
| 3 | One of the Many on the Move ( Merlin Books , 94pp , illus , sbk , £5.95 ) by Jim Burtt-Smith , is the Author 's recollections of his childhood experiences , including witnessing the Victory Parade of World War One , joining the RAF and flying Wellingtons on operations , only to get shot down and ditch in the sea , spending the rest of the war as a PoW . |
| 4 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 5 | Leila had said it would be presumptuous for them all to descend on Roirbak like an unwelcome plague , so had communicated ahead and reserved rooms in a cheap hostel popular with nomad natros . |
| 6 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 7 | If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines . |
| 8 | Maybe I should just 've stayed here and untangled Mrs Wertenheimer 's fight with her landlord . |
| 9 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 10 | But then when I left library I just got fed up and I went and went down to help Sue did n't I ? |
| 11 | Sampras revealed : ‘ He was just getting pumped up and shouting , ‘ Let's kick some ass ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyroad , Bob 'll already have set off and I may meet him up on t'tops . ’ |
| 13 | I congratulate the British farming industry on keeping its temper at times when it could easily have boiled over and reciprocated . |
| 14 | I think personalised shirts , or even any shirts may be asking for trouble if we are going to mingle rather than just get herded in and out of the away enclosure . |
| 15 | Economists at the World Bank and elsewhere have laboured hard and long to put international data on a sound footing and the ‘ Technical Notes ’ that follow the tables in the Reports are full of acknowledgements of the difficulties involved . |
| 16 | One of you dies , the remaining one still owns all the property cos he or she always has done so and therefore it belongs to that person . |
| 17 | And that 's all we had there and we were for ever getting flooded out and there we we 'd all clean our shoes before going to bed at night put 'em all underneath the sideboard or whatever . |
| 18 | Ancient tribes usually get killed off and their lands taken or destroyed . ’ |
| 19 | Her remark that she could always have stayed home and made cookies has discomfited Republicans , not least Barbara Bush . |
| 20 | And still felt washed out and without energy ? |
| 21 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 22 | ‘ We did not complete it because we would probably have faded out and died within a week . |
| 23 | My guess is though , that if , if the age difference had been something like erm , seven or eight years , by the time your mother was asking you to give up sweets for your very much younger brother , you would probably have matured sufficiently and perhaps identified enough with your mother to see yourself playing a more kind of maternal role , as , you know the grown up sister . |
| 24 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 25 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 26 | Roads must also have led eastwards and westwards , the latter at least with offshoots serving an extensive suburb south of the river . |
| 27 | One aircraft dropped its torpedo outside the Harbour and attempted to run it through the Harbour entrance , the fifth aircraft , unable to locate its target , returned to base with its torpedo , and the sixth aircraft , piloted by P/O Atherton , must also have turned away and retired seaward . |
| 28 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 29 | She said very happy really she said , he 's really has settled in and you know sort of and that was nice was n't it ? |
| 30 | This fish has now been imported for over two years and when first appeared its price was in the second-mortgage league , but now has dropped considerably and can be picked up for between £30–£50 . |