Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 2 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 3 | I have seen the dyke before the village entirely filled up with men sitting there discussing the week 's fishing . |
| 4 | It is accepted that such surveys are only carried out by employees of the building society in the case of the Woolwich Building Society , so that the question at issue can only arise in regard to the structural surveys provided by that building society . |
| 5 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 6 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 7 | For me the work less obviously caught up with technologies resonated most . |
| 8 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 9 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 10 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 11 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 12 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 13 | An outline of the settlement of the barbarians in Gaul up until the 450s is necessarily made up of fragments from a variety of sources , not all of which are in agreement . |
| 14 | As the arrivals list is only made up from guests who have made reservations in advance , it will not show ‘ chance ’ guests or a guest who changes rooms after the list has been circulated . |
| 15 | This was just as well because the washing was not only hung up on poles above but spread out upon drying racks in the street itself . |
| 16 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm so fed up with restaurants that have really bright fluorescent lights everywhere that make you look green , ’ she says . |
| 18 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 19 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 20 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 21 | We know of one in Vietnam where they 're literally towed around in tanks . ’ |
| 22 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
| 23 | There was the bone china three-tiered cake stand , each layer nicely laid out with slices of home-made cake . |
| 24 | Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place and took second when the leading group all pulled in for pit-stops for new tyres between laps 29 and 34 . |
| 25 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 26 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 27 | The Law Commission concluded that some remedy of this type should be retained but considered that the old remedy was so hedged about with limitations ( in particular , it provided no power of sale ) and obscurities that it would be better to create a new , statutory right . |
| 28 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 29 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 30 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |