Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
32 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
33 She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began …
34 She was eventually dropped off in Northampton .
35 Peter was rather doted on in his childhood — with the sort of results you see now . ’
36 The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part .
37 Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage .
38 Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system .
39 Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda .
40 And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance .
41 Neighbor to Neighbor were delighted with the free publicity provoked by the row , but have been effectively frozen out of TV advertising — since P&G made its announcement , only one other TV station has run the advert .
42 Most previous research , predominantly carried out in the USA , focuses on single aspects of the promotion process such as appraisal systems , psychological tests , career development systems , plateauing and sponsor-protege relationships .
43 However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced .
44 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 .
45 As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community .
46 Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely .
47 When he is eventually hounded out of America and into exile by J Edgar Hoover ( Kevin Dunn ) it is an ignominious end to his career .
48 He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain .
49 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
50 To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century .
51 Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose .
52 Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity .
53 Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people .
54 The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 .
55 The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing .
56 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 .
57 This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year .
58 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
59 because the work is more effectively carried out by a single-purpose organization rather than by a government department with a wide range of functions ;
60 It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap .
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