Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 3 | The real McCoy is made up in loose linens , which can be relied on to hang stylishly on even the stickiest of summer days . |
| 4 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 5 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 6 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 7 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 8 | The beggar is plainly moved , and goes on looking curiously at Howard for some moments after he has walked on . |
| 9 | John then goes on to say well of course we 're going to refer this to the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |
| 11 | Fair enough , but my point is this : if you 're bitten by a pye-dog and the wound becomes infected , is it sensible behaviour to carry on hanging out with pye-dogs ? |
| 12 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've decided to go on living here at the farm with Poppa , ’ she was saying . |
| 14 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 15 | Services should n't assume that because relatives cope silently they want to go on doing so for ever . |
| 16 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 17 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 18 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 19 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 20 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 21 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 22 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 23 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 24 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 25 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 26 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 27 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 28 | some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 29 | Some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 30 | At Beaulieu Abbey near Loches he would have seen the piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre which his notoriously savage ancestor Count Fulk the Black was believed to have bitten off while kneeling down to pray there on one of his three pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |