Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers were supposed to give a list of their homeworkers ' addresses to local authorities , but in 1907 two investigators found that in West Ham only 520 homeworkers on a list of 1,786 could be successfully traced and concluded that the Acts ( and therefore the inspection of homework premises ) were a dead letter . |
| 2 | ( 7 ) The property information questionnaire duly completed and signed and dated . |
| 3 | The plant was described by the ancient Greeks to improve eyesight ad this belief continued and travelled to Britain where Gerard recommended : " that the herb a little boiled or skalded and kept in pickle as Sampier ( samphire ) and eaten , quickens the sight " , or : " applied with honey and the juice of Fennell , is a remedie against dim eies " . |
| 4 | The school or public library can cater for confident children by providing a wide range of books and related materials — pictures , videos , music and spoken-word cassettes , computer software , etc. — so arranged and displayed that the young users are not overwhelmed . |
| 5 | Confrontation with the enemy and violence done to him when necessary were not only justified but appeared as ends in their own right . |
| 6 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 7 | as if dealing with a stubborn splinter fixed firmly and painfully down behind a fingernail , Zambia patiently nudged and pushed and , eventually , the agonising sliver was expelled . |
| 8 | Aggressive behaviour is to be not only discouraged but monitored and disciplined : the public regarded as consumers , customers and paymasters of policing , not potential villains or troublemakers . |
| 9 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 10 | We were informed that the Prime Minister had set aside an hour for us , and she arrived on the dot , nicely accoutred and coiffeured and saying she was ready to go when we were . |
| 11 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 12 | Nine o'clock came and went and there was no sign of him . |
| 13 | Alain merely nodded and smiled and Jenna glanced at him curiously . |
| 14 | Anxious not to be further delayed , she merely nodded and waved but before she was out of earshot she heard Ford 's voice boom out a greeting . |
| 15 | And then she kind of jumped into this absurd thing of suddenly saying that meant that all women were housewives , and that wages for housework was the thing that united all women . ’ |
| 16 | At low frequencies Brownian motion can relieve the deformation caused by the stress before the next cycle takes place , but as the frequency increases the conformational change begins to lag behind the stress and energy is not only dissipated but stored as well . |
| 17 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |
| 18 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 19 | I could only agree and wondered if Agrippa 's joke about magic might have some truth in it . |
| 20 | The policeman only stood and fought because he could n't run ; and run is what you must always do whenever knives come out . |
| 21 | Still worse , however , were visits to a Kilmarnock grandmother , a tough ‘ old tartar ’ of a truly ‘ grim disposition ’ , who ‘ just lived and lived and lived ’ in her spotless ‘ scrubbed white ’ house . |
| 22 | They saw it as a betrayal of their promise that by making a full confession Blake would be more leniently treated and felt that such a heavy sentence would deter any future traitors from confessing . |
| 23 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 24 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 25 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 26 | It was only just washed and ironed that even on you . |
| 27 | Who just sighed and said that penguins had driven themselves blind , even mad , by watching that dangerous nonsense up there . |
| 28 | The other girls just laughed but stopped when Tess looked unhappy . |
| 29 | He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture . |
| 30 | Some of Donaldson 's punting was shrewdly angled and flighted but the wings scarcely saw the ball . |