Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 2 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 3 | Suspicion and hostility towards the law in working-class London at the turn of the century drew on much deeper funds of popular feeling than can be usefully or relevantly summed up as the work of ‘ Hooligan ’ gangs or ‘ Hooliganism ’ . |
| 4 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 5 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 6 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 7 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 8 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 9 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 11 | No you you got a more or less get up on something to sort it out . |
| 12 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
| 13 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |
| 14 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 15 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 16 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 17 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 18 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 19 | The bungalow had been more or less cancelled out by mother 's renovations . |
| 20 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 21 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 22 | It is very much a system 's search mechanism as opposed to a search strategy initiated or purposefully carried out by the user . |
| 23 | Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor . |
| 24 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 25 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
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