Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is also possible that the outer 200 km or so cooled and became rigid whilst they were deformed by internal turmoil which destroyed hydrostatic equilibrium . |
| 2 | I say , looking back to see Andy coming up the hill behind me , suddenly slowing and looking wary as he sees the man . |
| 3 | They can only develop and become effective if they happen to land on a female cone . |
| 4 | Right , I 'd better go and get ready and go and get those car mats . |
| 5 | It was better to let it rot out on the field then go to the trouble to carry it wet because it would only rot or become mouldy and absolutely useless . |
| 6 | Some people , on the other hand , are suddenly rendered immobile , for example some of the ‘ emergency ’ admissions to hospital and those who suddenly collapse or become ill and are nursed at home . |
| 7 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 8 | Her house was the best furnished and kept spic and span . |
| 9 | Oh good ah hang on er , three pairs there , seven , six and an eight , right there 's two blacks in sevens here , well I 'll just have a pair of each , I 've only got a fiver in me purse just wondering whether to get black or blue though ? |
| 10 | And to be quite honest if Pete 's there everyone else can just go and drop dead cos I , it 's true |
| 11 | The Provisions of Oxford were thus quashed and declared null and void , while the King was to retain control over his choice of those counsellors , whether native or alien , whom he thought faithful and useful to him . |
| 12 | I tried again and harder to work and felt restless and uneasy . |
| 13 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 14 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 15 | Mr Mieno is still talking and acting tough because he is intent on bursting the speculative bubbles in shares and property . |
| 16 | Maybe these Indians can only take so much of poling Jesuits upstream and just instinctively snap and turn nasty and shove them overboard . |
| 17 | My concern , however , has been the more modest one of simply characterising and comparing classical and positivist ideas . |
| 18 | The pizzas should be well done but remain pale and soft enough to fold in the hand to eat . |
| 19 | The existing biases of research and development are well known and include big as against small farmers bias ; cash crop as against subsistence crop bias ; maximum average yield as against maximum yields in bad years ; irrigable as against dry land crops ; and higher yields per unit as against higher yields per worker . |
| 20 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |
| 21 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
| 22 | You say that you value receiving more information and having closer links with your university , and encouraged by that we shall carry on working hard to make that contact easy and pleasurable . |
| 23 | According to research conducted by Strathclyde educational psychologists , statistical evidence indicated that several dozen Asian and black children may have been unfairly designated as having severe or profound learning difficulties . |
| 24 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 25 | The site will be completely cleared and made safe until building work can start on the new development . |
| 26 | But there is no evidence that they either intended or effected systematic and long-term destruction . |
| 27 | His behaviour towards his family is the guide to his probable behaviour in the less closely controlled and supervised political and economic spheres where , since competition is so acute , most actions appear conspiratorial , and all plans are schemes . |
| 28 | The vast majority of course needed only minor repair , but 25 , 113 were seriously damaged or rendered uninhabitable and 2,487 were totally destroyed ( Bullock , 1987 , p. 73 ) . |
| 29 | The area of skin actually dies and looks white and initially feels numb . |