Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After dominating for four rounds , he suddenly found himself up against it when he shipped a series of right hand shots in the final two sessions . |
| 32 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 33 | Poulenc rarely achieves or even tries to emulate his fellow countryman 's emotional intensity , although the more overtly entertaining and witty numbers can suddenly catch you out with a characteristically bitter-sweet volte-face . |
| 34 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 35 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 36 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 37 | Trevor and then if you 've got all those bits and pieces together send them in at the end of the week using this commission claim form . |
| 38 | Because if you are I 'd better count you out of the reckoning right away . |
| 39 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 40 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 41 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 42 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 43 | Walking uphill can suddenly bring you out of the mist and into the sunshine , with beautiful panoramas . |
| 44 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 45 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 46 | ‘ We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry . |
| 47 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 48 | Business can tell us they are unable to work with Labour , the City can hijack a Labour Government by sabotaging the economy , but they 'll only show themselves up for what they are a power-mad cartel with no regard for the British people . |
| 49 | ‘ Now , I better bring you up to date a bit . |
| 50 | I 'd better bring you up to date on what 's been happening since I saw you . ’ |
| 51 | He glanced at Catherine but she had obviously noticed nothing out of the way . |
| 52 | Never mind , you can all warm us up with your , your programme this morning . |
| 53 | For many pensioners this week 's increases will only bring them back to where they were 18 months ago , and some pensioners will still be worse off . |
| 54 | The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance . |
| 55 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 56 | You have to be able to hold it up there and perhaps put it down on paper or apply it . |
| 57 | I only put it on at night as my herons do n't seem to come in the day . |
| 58 | I only put it back on Friday . |
| 59 | Tablecloths can be easily tugged off , so hold them down with double-sided tape or tuck the corners in . |
| 60 | He told them that by turning off here , the company they were following would almost certainly be heading for upper Teviotdale , by Rankilburn , Buccleuch and Bellenden , since the Ettrick valley would merely bring them back to its junction with Yarrow again . |