Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was rather doted on in his childhood — with the sort of results you see now . ’ |
| 2 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 3 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 4 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 5 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 6 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 7 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 8 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 11 | He was like a goldfish , suddenly tipped out of its bowl into a pond , conditioned to continue swimming in circles . |
| 12 | But at the moment I 'm so caught up with our construction problems I do n't see myself having the time for months ahead . |
| 13 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 14 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 15 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 16 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 17 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 18 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 19 | She nearly said , ‘ And you are larger , ’ but did n't , only looked up into his face and saw that he was not a young man , perhaps even as much as forty . |
| 20 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 21 | In it he boasts of his gifts to charity , all written down in his little black book : |
| 22 | Ryan had his mask on , only pushed up above his eyes like flying goggles before take-off . |
| 23 | But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay . |
| 24 | Knighthoods go to the class acts , the Andrew Lloyd Webbers of this world , as well as the dull but self-important people who have merely turned up at their desks in Whitehall for enough years . |
| 25 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |
| 26 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ In the Half Moon , the day before yesterday , the man who seemed so fed up about our having this cottage was called ‘ My lord — Mr Smith ’ . |
| 28 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 29 | Do n't be so puffed up with your own perfections as to imagine that because other people allow themselves liberties you can not take , therefore they must be wicked . |
| 30 | One thing , yesterday , we were talking about my wonderful stick man , here he is basically made up of his personality , a number of attitudes and outward behaviour . |