Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 2 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 3 | The rhinoceros hornbill — which , like most hornbills , prefers the same type of trees that loggers prefer — is having its world literally cut out from under it . |
| 4 | He supposed it was somewhere under the rug , perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter . |
| 5 | In the enlightenment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , scientific medicine finally struggled out from beneath the dead hand of classical authority . |
| 6 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 7 | I have n't had time to think yet , I 've only just got back in on the phone and sorting out the printer . |
| 8 | I know it 's just laid down as as sheet as to what you 're supposed to put down and all sorts but I ca n't remember exactly how detailed it 's got ta be . |
| 9 | But by by the same token , as as I 've already set out in in my submission , we we believe there is an urgent need and a justifiable demand in Selby District and that 's partly related to the need to have a distribution of available employment opportunities throughout the district . |
| 10 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 11 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 12 | We know that the Palace was still used occasionally for in 1418 , Bishop Yong was here , sitting judicially in his Chapel at Halling giving judgement and punishment to the Prior of the Convent of Rochester , in a dispute over St. Nicholas Church , Rochester . |
| 13 | Patients were usually followed up for at least 6 months after the last event . |
| 14 | The action brought him round further , still shut off from outside contact , apart from the view through the lens . |
| 15 | Also brought in by at least one US multinational — NCR 's new parent , AT&T , was the notion of quotas of women in top jobs within a certain time span . |
| 16 | Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss . |
| 17 | Because it , cos people were you know erm as is often said generally of of a of a general staffs of armies . |
| 18 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 19 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 20 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 21 | It has never wavered and has consistently fought ever since for the adoption of this method . |
| 22 | Apparently , the counties of Surrey , Sussex , Middlesex , Essex and Shropshire were the worst recorded up to about 1860 , after which time they were as efficient as anywhere else in the country . |
| 23 | Another 30 000 litres of radioactive water in the basement , and the by now well-rehearsed emergency shutdown procedure was again called on to save the day . |
| 24 | She was young and vigorous , a warm and comely maid , and what she lacked in skill , Mathilda certainly made up for in enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Capodimonte has always been collectable Dennis , it 's never gone , never gone down in in popularity . |
| 26 | Over the days that followed she and Ronni dutifully worked together for at least six hours a day . |