Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities , which became the sites of major disturbances . |
| 2 | The company was compulsorily wound up after trading for 10 months with a deficiency of around £150,000 . |
| 3 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 4 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 5 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman , er , it 's an important point , but I 'm so fed up with hearing people using this as a political issue , erm , and , and , and I 'm a high critic of the government er , for many other reasons , but I would like to know where these people think the money would come from . |
| 7 | Erm , we tend to get it it 's just an exercise , but it proved a point that even in twenty minutes we were , we 'd only got through only got through to doing ideals , |
| 8 | This attractive young Woodbrook player , three down on the 13th , seemed to have a superb match against Eavan Higgins all wrapped up after jumping ahead for the first time on the 17th , but lost her ‘ thinking cap ’ completely down the last . |
| 9 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 10 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 11 | Some of the Prince 's friends were also somewhat put out at having their cosy relationship altered by the distraction of a young wife . |
| 12 | Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime ? |
| 13 | There is usually no way of enforcing attendance , so such threats have to be taken seriously , and perhaps worked through by paying special attention to their particular feelings and needs . |
| 14 | No I 'm not bothered about going on holiday , I suppose I 'm all worked up about getting bedroom sorted , ha |
| 15 | However , because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio . |
| 16 | Indeed , by the time Lord Darlington had finally come round to bidding his guests rise and drink to ‘ peace and justice in Europe ’ , the level of such noises — perhaps on account of the liberal amounts of wine that had been consumed — struck me as bordering on the ill-mannered . |
| 17 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 19 | While it is true that different assessment procedures usually focus on one or other of these different aspects of language , this is a reflection on the recent history of psycholinguistic research and ought not be taken to imply that assessment is best carried out by focusing on discrete areas . |
| 20 | ‘ Obviously they will not just be handed a job which is why a strategy is already mapped out for training and so on . ’ |
| 21 | I thought we should die of laughing , but soon sobered up on seeing Miss T. 's hurt expression , because I daresay she can take it in her stride all right . |
| 22 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 23 | Palo Alto , California-based Neuron Data Inc has finally got around to releasing version 2.0 of its Open Interface in the UK ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 24 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 25 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 26 | Perhaps the point can be best brought out by considering first authority as it functions in one , not untypical , context . |
| 27 | Perhaps the changes to Illustrator are best summed up by stating that the program has simultaneously made itself more accessible to the average user and significantly more useful to the professional . |
| 28 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
| 29 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |
| 30 | Following worldwide use of the oral vaccine , 's time was largely taken up in visiting various countries around the world and action as an adviser to the polio vaccination programme . |