Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 2 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 3 | However , the Stuarts eventually got traded in for solid Hanoverian stock , and the latest evidence suggests that the South learned fast . |
| 4 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 5 | So far Saatchi and Saatchi has maintained its ability to win new business and remarkably has clung on to its status among advertisers , only recently being voted the best all-round agency . |
| 6 | Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails . |
| 7 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |
| 8 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 9 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 10 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 11 | The division of the YJ Lovell group says the move leaves it better placed to cash in on work it is currently bringing in from South Yorkshire . |
| 12 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 14 | The mathematics master obviously intended to make up for his long silence during the earlier part of the term . |
| 15 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 16 | A 450km strip of road linking Tokyo , Nagoya and Kobe is alone expected to cost up to ¥5 trillion , more than twice the cost of the Channel tunnel between Britain and France . |
| 17 | We all has to put up with it ; you 're a brave girl . |
| 18 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 19 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 20 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 21 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 22 | had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one . |
| 23 | But there was little they could do about it except wring their hands at each fresh horror in its columns , analyse its transparently partisan coverage , and point out how its competitors were dragging their standards downmarket to try to keep up with its soaraway sales . |
| 24 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 25 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 26 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 27 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 28 | I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 30 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |