Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 2 | October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average … and it 's not half way through the month yet . |
| 3 | Yes we 've erm we 've brought in to play left back and pushed into midfield , playing with three mid-fielders , erm and we shall keep the same centre half pairing of and . |
| 4 | Doing this , ‘ he will perhaps have learned more than he can tell . ’ |
| 5 | They would only have grown up and become Boy Scouts . |
| 6 | Nigger could only have arrived home that same day and already he seemed to be queering Yanto 's pitch . |
| 7 | The plaintiff in Diamond Stylus Co Ltd v Bauden Precision Diamonds Ltd [ 1973 ] RPC 675 paid the price for not having an express covenant restraining employees from soliciting customers after employment ended and was forced to argue that solicitation could only have come about because of the misuse of business secrets . |
| 8 | Okay so having established then that you can look at the er er you can look at single channel currents , let's look at what those erm er currents can tell us . |
| 9 | In the Mirabeau Precinct she 'd only get pushed around and ignored . |
| 10 | One of the Many on the Move ( Merlin Books , 94pp , illus , sbk , £5.95 ) by Jim Burtt-Smith , is the Author 's recollections of his childhood experiences , including witnessing the Victory Parade of World War One , joining the RAF and flying Wellingtons on operations , only to get shot down and ditch in the sea , spending the rest of the war as a PoW . |
| 11 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 12 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 13 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 14 | She felt depressed , suspecting that her quip about rot setting in had held more than a few grains of truth . |
| 15 | Leila had said it would be presumptuous for them all to descend on Roirbak like an unwelcome plague , so had communicated ahead and reserved rooms in a cheap hostel popular with nomad natros . |
| 16 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 17 | If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines . |
| 18 | Maybe I should just 've stayed here and untangled Mrs Wertenheimer 's fight with her landlord . |
| 19 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 20 | But then when I left library I just got fed up and I went and went down to help Sue did n't I ? |
| 21 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 22 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 23 | Sampras revealed : ‘ He was just getting pumped up and shouting , ‘ Let's kick some ass ’ . |
| 24 | You normally get drummed out if you disgrace yourself . |
| 25 | Children may know that clothes dry on a washing line or in a tumble dryer , but may not have asked how or why . |
| 26 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 27 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 28 | Yeah but the advice might not have gone amiss and |
| 29 | The letter was prepared but would not have gone out until the land had been seen . |
| 30 | He was still inside her , but softened and withdrawn , and she could not have said honestly that the experience was an exciting one . |