Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
2 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
3 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
4 | The main thing is I do n't want to go back into the private sector unless I absolutely have to . |
5 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
6 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
7 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
8 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
9 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
10 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
11 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
12 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
13 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
14 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
15 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
16 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
17 | And I did n't want to jump out into the fast-moving darkness without any boots and within range of fifty tommy-guns . |
18 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
19 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
20 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
21 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
22 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
23 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
24 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
25 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
26 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
27 | She just could n't wait to go through with the whole messy , life-destroying business . |
28 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
29 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
30 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |