Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 2 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 3 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 4 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 5 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 6 | Work is only carried out during normal working hours , Monday to Friday . |
| 7 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 8 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 9 | only picked out in sudden revelations . |
| 10 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 11 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 12 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 13 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 14 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 15 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 16 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 17 | Little boxes , all made out of ticky-tacky , we sneer , even though that song was written by an American , Tom Paxton . |
| 18 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 19 | Mild defects only shown up on sophisticated psychological testing are common in people with AIDS , or who are unwell as a result of HIV infection . |
| 20 | In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values . |
| 21 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 22 | With the future of a new state lying uncharted before them , discussion of politics naturally reached down to basic principles , and there was considerable pressure to establish the new states and their federation as democracies , or as near that as was practically possible , democracy still at this time meaning direct popular participation in government . |
| 23 | I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped , so bunged up with petty authority . |
| 24 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 25 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 26 | Two flattened ‘ U ’ yokes protrude from the facia , which in ‘ IL is nicely laid out with modern avionics to IFR standards including DME , glideslope and transponder . |
| 27 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 28 | It was a large room , an Aladdin 's cave to any would-be falconer , filled with expensive-looking equipment : bags and lures hanging from walls , jesses and leashes all laid out in immaculate order . |
| 29 | Pornography means more than most people would have us believe , but the word has become so weighed down with negative associations that we tend to shy away from it . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's all simulated out of woven soya protein . ’ |