Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims these reptiles make superb pets as they sit incredibly still for hours and then go on the rampage — very much like Pest Control staff ! |
| 2 | So when you 're finished here take the combine on down to Pope 's Bottom ready for the morning . |
| 3 | From these figures it will be seen that High Court judges gain little financially from promotion . |
| 4 | In temperate regions , there is nothing like the exclusively frugivorous fruit pigeons of the tropics , but many temperate bird species eat little else in autumn and winter . |
| 5 | So , ironically , while we prayed that rain would not blight our sale , we worked to help those who suffer so terribly from lack of rain . |
| 6 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 7 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 8 | In this regard it is significant that CREB/ATF1 heterodimers bind less stably to DNA than CREB homodimers ( 30 ) raising the possibility that CREB/ATF1 heterodimers may be relatively poor activators . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘ |
| 10 | Press on please to Q P 28. papers turning |
| 11 | Press on Regardless by Stanley Humphrey , is one man 's story of life in the RAF from 1934 to 1946 . |
| 12 | The A fifty nine has a number of constraints upon it , including best and most versatile agricultural land , its its difficulty of assimilating a new settlement , but as I say most importantly for highway reasons . |
| 13 | Caddis flies are rather nondescript , drab brown insects , which most of us fail to notice as they fly rather clumsily over rivers . |
| 14 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |
| 15 | Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk . |
| 16 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 17 | It 's okay , even if they get send down then of course they can still appeal but you ca n't it 's ridiculous |
| 18 | ‘ You will load your aeroplanes with T.N.T. , ’ he said , ‘ fly in line-astern to Corps H.Q. , and crash on to the roof of the Corps commander 's chateau , in alphabetical order . ’ |
| 19 | SHe lay back , pulling Tammuz' head down on to hir breast , where he closed his eyes in a relief that was , strangely , both enervating and exhilarating . |
| 20 | Neutrinos , those ghostly elementary particles produced in radioactive decays , have a reputation for being elusive : they interact so weakly with matter they can pass right through the Earth unimpeded . |
| 21 | Around three-quarters of the food we buy is processed in some way but Faith is right in thinking some convenience foods are healthier than others — fishfingers , frozen vegetables , pasta , pizza , baked beans , canned fruit in natural juices and yogurt all fit in neatly with ideas about healthy eating . |
| 22 | And nowhere was that place just out of reach |
| 23 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 24 | When it comes to men , I steer away completely from musicians ! |
| 25 | This geological feature is almost unique to the Falkland Islands , and even geologists arc not entirely in agreement about how they were formed . |
| 26 | Bong off together like beads that have gotten loose of the string so , but Parkinson — did you meet him ? — he was , Parkinson was the guy who did the Rolling Stone typeface and he was here . |
| 27 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 28 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 29 | Perhaps she should just forget it and fly straight back to London . |
| 30 | Neutrons interact comparatively weakly with matter , but Inelastic Neutron Scattering ( INS ) is capable of revealing both rotational and vibrational transitions in solid samples . |