Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments within the Thatcher administration went on apace over whether to swing the axe fiercely into public spending in the winter of 1980–1 , with ministers like Prior , Pym , Walker , and Carrington arguing the case for maintaining public expenditure and investment , monetarists outside the government like Alan Budd urging far more stringent monetary restraint , and Sir Geoffrey Howe at the Treasury buffeted about in between . |
| 2 | She put the receiver down quickly as if to stop me from asking anything else about her illness , and it reminded me sharply of my Aunt Viv , bright , spirited and horse mad to the end . |
| 3 | Hope shook his head and sat down carefully as if to concentrate on his tea leaves . |
| 4 | Behind him , Paxton 's body lay amongst the frozen dancers and entertainers smiling down blankly as if welcoming him . |
| 5 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 6 | Then he rolled back his chair and stood up sharply as if needing to give vent to a violent sense of frustration . |
| 7 | It plucked her from her feet and spun her round , tumbling her back uphill as if playing a game of roll-a-ball . |
| 8 | As he spoke , the alarmed young woman — only quite attractive , Hope assessed , a little too thin in the face for his taste — glanced behind and then beyond and back again as if expecting to be set on by bandits . |