Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all get in there and he goes sit down please did you see about half the people sat down before he |
| 2 | They took it in turns to breathe in the smoke , as the substance sizzled with a malicious delight . |
| 3 | You need only to look at commercial copy or displays to see how powerfully a type-face complements the message it is conveying . |
| 4 | • Z55 tensile quality steel combined with a 47mm deep ribbed profile configuration gives excellent spanning characteristics and minimises ponding even at pitches as low as 1½£° |
| 5 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 6 | Alexandra , Lyddy and Janet took it in turns to sit up at night with her . |
| 7 | It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down . |
| 8 | If I drive the line through , preventing them from laughing , then the final laugh will be both laughs joined together , and some more — from relief . ’ |
| 9 | Or more exactly , while he does stress the difference between poetry and referential language , he also stresses that the experience which poetry produces differs only in degree , not in kind , from other types of emotive experience . |
| 10 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 11 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 12 | Called the Services Home Savings Scheme , it involves tucking away between £50 and £200 a month into a savings account with one of four organisations . |
| 13 | We took it in turns to see how close we could get . |
| 14 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 15 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
| 16 | MacDonald 's rescue plan for Norton involves bringing in new sources of finance , selling the German FUS subsidiary ( he says he 'll get £100,000 — Norton paid £8 million ) , and designing ( personally ) a new , lower-cost bike to replace the F1 . |
| 17 | The monetary committee offers to carry out regular checks on ‘ a confidential set of indicators … primarily measures of external competitiveness ’ . |
| 18 | He hates the city and longs to go back home . |
| 19 | Lip-curling japes ensure as Newt firs tries to evict the compulsively fanciful Gwen , then agrees to go along with her charade , just to make his intended fiancée jealous . |
| 20 | Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area . |
| 21 | This is because section 12(1) of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 states that a " contract for the supply of a service " means : … a contract under which a person ( " the supplier " ) agrees to carry out a service . |
| 22 | And it is significant that the stories she refers to relate not to her unhappy marriage but directly to the Queen . |
| 23 | Posy longs to come out of her shell |
| 24 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 25 | Paceman Karl Peers , recovered from injury , bagged 3–33 and Darren Peters picked up 2–28 to steer the Hall to a home tie , probably against Styal , in the zone final on Sunday week . |
| 26 | Multiple energy transformations can markedly improve the reconstructed images the filter concept in holographic transforms has also been addressed . |
| 27 | But there are a lot of flaws : the idea of combining four generations involves weaving back and forth in time which works occasionally . |
| 28 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 29 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 30 | Disguised wage work refers to work where one or more enterprises appropriate part of the product of a person 's work without the person officially being an employee of the firm . |