Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 2 | Such administrators will be given titles to match up to their responsibilities : " chief executive " is not unknown . |
| 3 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 4 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 5 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 6 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 7 | Zahira was eventually given permission to stay on in Britain . |
| 8 | This technique of interpreting a duty as coupled with a discretion , although strictly illogical ( how can a duty be discretionary ? ) , is a useful device to enable courts to keep out of contentious areas . |
| 9 | Apricot waited until her exams were over and then went down to the Catholic church and hung about until she met Bernard coming out of confession . |
| 10 | Problem is , take one too many and you 'll start to see hair growing out of the walls . |
| 11 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 12 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 13 | ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition . |
| 14 | ENGLISH China Clays today announced plans to pull out of construction materials as it unveiled a £202.3m US acquisition . |
| 15 | Whereas the shelter drawings had shown recumbent figures in still poses of monumental vulnerability , in the mines Moore faced new challenges : ‘ There was first the difficulty of seeing forms emerging out of deep darkness , the problem of conveying the claustrophobic effects of countless pit-props … receding into blackness , and of expressing the gritty , grubby smears of black coal-dust on the miners ’ bodies at the same time as the anatomy underneath ’ . |
| 16 | In as tactful a way as she could contrive she asked Shildon to hurry up with what he wanted to say . |
| 17 | Aunt Margaret began energetically to applaud , nudging Melanie to join in with her . |
| 18 | Now Louie wants to see Costner run out of town . |
| 19 | Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility . |
| 20 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 21 | Acorn for example , produced data broken down by ‘ agricultural areas ’ , ‘ older housing ’ , ‘ council estates ’ , ‘ metropolitan areas ’ . |
| 22 | There was some nuance of intimacy in her tone that made Richard look up in surprise and then look at Frank . |
| 23 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 24 | How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers ? |
| 25 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 26 | It proved exactly what Sutton thought : whatever the intellectuals might think , the punters did not want designers mucking about with their newspapers . |
| 27 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 28 | This was updated to include data collected up to December 1991 and the results of testing patients for HIV antibodies . |
| 29 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 30 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |