Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just ca n't deal with parents and adults because he 's so used to talking down to students all day . |
| 2 | She says , I 'm ever so sorry for coming up at that time she says , but I did notice Maggie 's light were n't on that 's |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 4 | ‘ Young thugs do n't like to know they are being watched and these cameras have been especially good at cutting down on incidents in the street , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Stretching exercises are not only useful for warming up before a training session begins , but also a very valuable contribution to good kicking techniques . |
| 6 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 7 | The Treasury had been so close to running out of money prior to the passage of legislation that it had postponed an auction of $40,000 million in government securities . |
| 8 | Now he 'd have to rely for a lift on Colin who would n't be so keen on coming out of his way . |
| 9 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that we 're not a noise band , ’ adds Mike , ‘ we do n't jump around the place but we 're totally comfortable with going out on a stage . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We guessed , ’ said Faye , ‘ when you were more concerned about getting down to the blood bank than about thrashing through my prognosis with Dr Greene . ’ |
| 12 | Last week 's starter with Heinz Wolff ( ITV , 13 March ) was all the more impressive for getting off to such a terrible start with the tortuous answer that interviewer Ian Fells elicited to his opener about the meaning of biomedical engineering . |
| 13 | Comet experts in the US are deeply disappointed at missing out on Halley 's comet . |
| 14 | In the interests of discretion , he waited until nearly twelve-thirty before creeping round to the ladies ' corridor . |
| 15 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 16 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 17 | This undermines the authority of parents , the ones most responsible for passing on to their offspring a sense of right and wrong . |
| 18 | The great public services will be more rewarding to work in , and more successful in doing their job , when their purpose is seen to be pre-eminently that of living up to their title — serving the public . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's really upset about falling out with Bert . |
| 20 | It 's really good for sitting down with a meal and just forgetting about work . |
| 21 | They were perfectly capable of going back to the perch without my help . |
| 22 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 23 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 24 | ‘ We were really annoyed at missing out on our own party ! ’ |
| 25 | But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death . |
| 26 | But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death . |
| 27 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 28 | And last night , with his big service really back in the groove , looked well capable of moving back from his present lowly ranking of 15th to the top ten next year . |
| 29 | The Glasgow girls were particularly disappointed in losing out to Berlin in the semi-finals . |
| 30 | She 's had such a good time and made so many new friends that she 's quite resigned to going back to school in a few days ’ time . ’ |