Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 2 | So , the S.A.S. had been in and demonstrated that the Ministry police security was a load of rubbish … |
| 3 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 4 | You then bring your hands down and show that the birds have flown . |
| 5 | She jumped down and discovered that the post carriage , speeding along the dark road , had driven into her slow and unlighted waggon . |
| 6 | They will be increased if the rate goes down and reduced if the rate goes up . |
| 7 | Puncture the large blisters , turn the tortilla over , press down and cook until the underside develops brown patches . |
| 8 | Now we 're delighted that it 's over and thrilled that the bells are ringing . |
| 9 | Reading between the lines , what they meant was that they were not going to train people who might keel over and die before the CAB had had its money 's worth . |
| 10 | This provides a smooth surface to paint over and ensures that the colours come up clean and bright . |
| 11 | And he said , it looks as though they 've put the chimney on and found that the flue is the ba the boiler 's in the bathroom , so they 've had to come down here . |
| 12 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 13 | But whatever you do , do not send out a general mailing and then ring up and ask whether the recipient is going to use it or not . |
| 14 | He has to stick his head up and go where the fuck has it gone ? |
| 15 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 16 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 17 | She looked up and saw that the lights had changed to green and as the car behind her sounded its horn she let out the clutch too quickly and the car lurched forward . |
| 18 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |
| 19 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 20 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 21 | In the gap I was planning to have a whole lot of lights and electronic valves which could light up and flash when the Dalek was agitated about anything . |
| 22 | The shop steward then stood up and asked whether the management would be so kind as to tell him which men would be involved so that he could inform their wives now . ’ |
| 23 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 24 | This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side . |
| 25 | That 's why I stood up and shouted when the homes were to be closed . |
| 26 | She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat . |
| 27 | I wish we could just phone up and say that the car 's been snatched |
| 28 | The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice . |
| 29 | The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems . |
| 30 | Forster was sorely tempted to nip out and confirm that the noise was coming from George by twiddling the volume and tuner , but fought down the urge . |