Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [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 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 .
3 And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up .
4 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 !
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself .
9 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 .
10 He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting .
11 We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms .
15 The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades .
16 Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar .
17 Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions .
18 Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee .
19 He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury .
20 Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism .
21 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 ) .
22 The catering manager at Butler 's contract is Neil Patterson — a chef who joined Compass six years ago and has since moved across into management .
23 Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America .
24 Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him .
25 So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match .
26 Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton .
27 With funds to invest worth $1 billion and a reputation for picking winners , he can move markets : the gold price has since climbed rapidly by almost $15 , passing $150 an ounce for the first time since October .
28 The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own .
29 She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands .
30 A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish .
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