Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 2 | Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face . |
| 3 | Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities , which became the sites of major disturbances . |
| 4 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 5 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 6 | The position of the tubes was fluoroscopically checked frequently during infusion . |
| 7 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 8 | Further quantitative analysis may be carried out for consonant structure , liquid confusion , lengthening , palatalisation and order of acquisition of consonants , although this requires the test to be tape recorded and can be successfully completed only by someone with a sound knowledge of phonemic analysis . |
| 9 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 10 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 11 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 12 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 13 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 14 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 15 | He glanced round the small untidy sitting room and saw Maidstone 's jacket on the back of a chair , presumably placed there by Franco . |
| 16 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 17 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 18 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 20 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 21 | From two furlongs out , the well-backed and fancied maiden Adam Smith was the only serious threat but the older horse , vigorously shaken up by Steve Cauthen , put him firmly in his place . |
| 22 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 23 | While the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century can not be wholly explained simply in terms of this general cultural and social upheaval , it was most certainly part of it . |
| 24 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 25 | The government published its White Paper on the Environment on Sept. 25 , 1990 but it was widely criticized both by politicians and by environmentalists as merely reiterating measures already incorporated into the Environmental Protection Bill which was going through parliament and was enacted on Nov. 1 , 1990 . |
| 26 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 27 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 28 | Eventually Helen spotted a reception desk , discreetly tucked away behind a large weeping fig ; they advanced across wastes of polished marble and were directed to a lift . |
| 29 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 30 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |