Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 2 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 3 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 4 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 5 | think feminism has to provide a unified , positive alternative for all women , in order for them to be able not only to know about but to reject and try to escape subordination ( 1979 : 129 ) . |
| 6 | The tables for Enumeration Districts and electoral wards ( in Scotland , postcode sectors and Output Areas ) have had 1 randomly added to and subtracted from any non-zero count , apart from the basic head counts . |
| 7 | ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’ |
| 8 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 9 | They were all so done up and seemed so aloof. , Yet , in fact they were really easy going and fine to get along with |
| 10 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 11 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 12 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 13 | Metaphor lay coiled in the name sunflower , which not only turned towards but resembled the sun , the source of light . |
| 14 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 15 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 16 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 17 | No Practice … shall be required to contest any legal proceedings unless a Queen 's Counsel ( to be mutually agreed upon or failing agreement to be appointed by the President of the [ Law ] Society for the time being ) shall advise that such proceedings should be contested . |
| 18 | This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise : to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors . |
| 19 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 20 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 21 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 22 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 23 | The study of non-verbal communication is highly relevant : every signal we send out , consciously or , more usually , unconsciously can convey a richness of signals and meaning which can greatly add to and enhance — or indeed , detract from — our presentation of our selves and the success of our message delivery . |
| 24 | Logically , you can only write to and read from the I/0 devices in a sequential manner . |
| 25 | The latter are also more in tune with the idea of internal markets and the future role of authorities , less identified with and dominated by the aspirations of providers . |
| 26 | Training with Molly and Toxi followed , with piano tuition from Rita Horton ; she qualified in 1960 , only to move on and become a trainer in 1965 . |
| 27 | In a strong judgment the Court also claimed that the ‘ dignity and freedom of an individual in a democratic society can not be ensured if his communications of a private nature , be they written or telephonic , are deliberately , consciously and unjustifiably intruded upon and interfered with ’ . |
| 28 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 29 | I presume serfs are still living there and I 'd rather break in than see innocent people die of hunger while — ’ |
| 30 | Crucial to the financial stability is the fact that Highlander is recognised as a non profit-making organisation , and as such it has successfully applied for and sustained a tax-exempt status from the Federal revenue agency . |