Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 2 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 3 | In ‘ symbolic ’ MTS , the bird might have to choose between horizontal and vertical as the comparison stimuli , choice of one being rewarded after a red sample , and choice of the other after green . |
| 4 | While the market might continue softening for psychological and cyclical reasons , its woes would probably not be compounded by fraud-tainted defaults . |
| 5 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 6 | They were probably derived from some sort of segmented worm ( annelid ) — a few scientists adopt the view that different arthropods may have come from different and separate worms , independently , which became ‘ arthropodized ’ by acquiring an external skeleton . |
| 7 | Erm , nothing Chair that I would want to refer to other than the , on page eleven we 're showing a figure there for management and support . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the education minister , Piet Marais , launched a programme yesterday to desegregate South African schools and said the government would equalise spending on black and white children in next year 's budget . |
| 9 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 10 | Now the loss will be converted to a profit of around £65,000 — money which would have gone to Tblisi as qualifiers for the European Cup first round proper . |
| 11 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 12 | In any other man it would have seemed like meaningless and artificial flattery , but Willi was incapable of being artificial . |
| 13 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 14 | The assignments will include typing from printed and manuscript copy . |
| 15 | The assignments will include typing from printed and manuscript copy . |
| 16 | By the end of the decade , power will have shifted to central and north-east Europe from its present location , which I suppose is somewhere between London , France and Rome . |
| 17 | A brief review of some recent experience in the field will serve to amplify in specific and practical detail some of the more general points made in the foregoing section . |
| 18 | This will mean forging with other and different churches creative relationships which express the reality of Christian love , brotherhood , and interdependence ’ ( Pasadena Consultation 1978:4 , 5 ) . |
| 19 | The new framework for higher education will require funding for basic and strategic research in each subject to be allocated selectively to high-quality departments . |
| 20 | I imagine that shortly after Bill and Ricky have arrived , the other guests will start coming in thick and fast . |
| 21 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 22 | What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts . |
| 23 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |