Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Getting started on the groove is tricky , then good but spaced holds lead up and left to more exposed rock .
2 The Coltronics charger avoids these problems , employing state-of-the-art electronics to carefully control and profile the charging current to eliminate heat build up and minimise electrolyte degradation .
3 Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground .
4 I 've had people come up and buy records and tapes and things and they 've gone back to their stall which is all they sell is records and tapes .
5 And erm I 've seen these at ten o'clock at night you know people come in and have a bowl of sort of soup , and , well I suppose it 's gravy in there .
6 I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult !
7 She watched Ben bend down and examine the pipes beneath the sink .
8 And there 's also the cheap ego massage of just having people come up and recognizing you , which is very nice when you 're young but gets progressively more boring .
9 For this reason , one of the major spin-offs of left idealism was a resurgence of interest in the sociology of law , concerned with how the legal rules that define crimes come about and serve the changing requirements of capitalism ( see Young , 1986 , p. 17 ) .
10 He needed still to have Mummy come along and say , ‘ No !
11 If we do n't get life support up and running soon , we 'll all suffocate . ’
12 It gets a little more difficult when eight-year-olds who 've seen me handling Dawn wander up and say they 're going to get a barn owl and train it .
13 To prepare squid cut off and save the tentacles , remove and then chuck the head , pull out the perspex-like spine , chop the body into half-inch strips , and wash all the parts scrupulously in lots of cold water .
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