Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia found an answering encouraging smile , but her smile did not remain for long when after a second or two of studying her Cara stated , quite clearly , ‘ You . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’ |
| 3 | It was unacceptable , he said , that patients should have to wait for more than two years for their promised treatments . |
| 4 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 5 | Holland had a perfectly good goal disallowed for off-side when Rijkaard clearly was n't . |
| 6 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 7 | An increase in membership of the Society is vital , so to help you ‘ sell ’ the idea to your classes Medau is putting even more sparkle into your life — every new member enrolled between now and 30th November ( Crystal Palace ) will be included in a free Champagne Draw — one bottle for each 100 members . |
| 8 | She keeps circling between past and present , memory and oblivion , like someone trying to wake up from a nightmare . |
| 9 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 10 | I waited ; a pick-up had been arranged for 5.30pm and I was certain it would not fail me . |
| 11 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 12 | But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon men that and his righteousness Joy be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost . |
| 13 | Farr-Jones is n't saying it in as many words , but he clearly feels that some of the doors opened by the World Cup triumph were not marched through quickly or expertly enough . |
| 14 | It recommends formula milk be heated in volumes of at least 4 oz and that 8 oz bottles should not be heated for more than 45 seconds . |
| 15 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 16 | So the stuff coming down , goes through there and then it goes into the rest of the tubes , and away through . |
| 17 | And he , you know , he 's not gon na know if Andrew goes through there and suddenly disappears and do n't come back through that door for |
| 18 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 19 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 20 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 21 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 22 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 23 | THE NHS should charge fees for old people who need nursing for more than 13 weeks in long-stay wards , a leading consultant said today . |
| 24 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 25 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 26 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
| 27 | Yet foreign banks still account for less than 3% of Italian banking assets . |
| 28 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , LIFFE still trades derivatives in US T-bonds and eurodollars , but these account for less than 5 per cent of the exchange 's total business . |
| 30 | The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production . |