Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 4 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 5 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 6 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 7 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 8 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |
| 9 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 10 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 11 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 12 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 13 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 14 | Okay what what do you think now you 're you 're you 're you 're a hairdresser of some standing in London , why do you think that men get so hung up about all of this kind of hair ? |
| 15 | ‘ I was just so fed up with all the internal politics . |
| 16 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 17 | Skill is demonstrated by persistent and efficient pursuit of an objective and the skill can usually be understood although not necessarily written down with any great precision in terms of a goal and the path towards that goal . |
| 18 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 19 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 20 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 21 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 22 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 23 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 24 | If the sensitivity of our pigments suddenly shifted over to that of the bee 's , the sky would still be reassuringly blue with fluffy white clouds , while nearly everything else would take on a bizarre hue . |
| 25 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 26 | Also , since conjunction is a device for signalling relations between chunks of information , it is naturally bound up with both the chunking of information , how much to say in one go , and with how the relations between such chunks of information are perceived and signalled . |
| 27 | And obviously they have their own priorities , so they do n't necessarily , they 're not necessarily geared up for that . |
| 28 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 29 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 30 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |