Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elise , oddly unenamoured of him , became worried when he took to coming down from London quite often at weekends . |
| 2 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 3 | We came out from church at about quarter-past ten and I would scoot home , for it was my job to take a can of tea and hot-cross buns ( they were really hot ) down to Dad already hard at work in the allotment . |
| 4 | The er road from Alston over to is blocked with snow and it 's passable from Alston over to Wear there only with four wheel drive vehicles . |
| 5 | Looking at the messages which had accumulated in her absence she saw the folly of rushing off to Oxford so close to the start of term and felt faintly annoyed with herself . |
| 6 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 7 | Now , if you 've got the odd spare weekend , a boat and £55,000 to spend , we may have found just the thing for you a fantasy island all of your own , and it 's up for sale right here in the heart of the Central South region . |
| 8 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 9 | For Maria , and perhaps even for Luke , the evening finally came to mean something when , having done his duty as an announcer , Florian Jones was called up on stage once more as the winner of the radio category in which he had been nominated . |
| 10 | Thus a woman on a bus describing the way a mutual friend has been behaving , getting out of bed too soon after an operation , concludes her turn in the conversation by saying |
| 11 | SWINDLING Baroness Cecilia de Stempel slipped out of jail early yesterday after serving less than 2 1/2 years of her seven-year sentence for cheating her aged aunt out of her fortune . |
| 12 | SILENCE Of The Lambs star Anthony Hopkins , above , was back behind bars again yesterday for the opening of an addiction centre at Downview prison in Sutton , Surrey . |
| 13 | But then the polar explorer and his partner , Dr Michael Stroud , arrived back in Britain only yesterday from their epic 95-day record-breaking Antarctic expedition . |
| 14 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 15 | She 'll have to get used to going out at night again instead of sitting at home waiting for a husband who never shows up . |
| 16 | She put her glasses on to peer once more at the vanished smear of mascara , and was amused to see the print of her face leap into sharp relief : a new trick , for her glasses are quite new . |
| 17 | The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions . |