Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But almost every year one or more of these Siberian thrushes or warblers turn up to add a bit of icing to the bird-watching cake ! |
| 2 | It means following the ignis fatuus , the ‘ will o ’ the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand ; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV , to be warned by Gollum not to heed them , or the dead , rotten , phantasmal faces in the marshes below : ‘ Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles . |
| 3 | When Orcs or Goblins march off to battle they invariably find themselves accompanied by a horde of Snotlings armed with bits of wood , broken spears , and weapons they have stolen or scrounged . |
| 4 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 5 | Recent changes in Westminster and Whitehall hold out hope that this ‘ stand-off ’ may be coming to an end . |
| 6 | A week later , back home in London , John 's father and sister come over to visit . |
| 7 | You pull them do n't you and presents come out d' you remember ? |
| 8 | Newcomer and Szajgin go on to define the lower and upper bounds of accuracy in the output map . |
| 9 | We clear out of the flat before Teddy and Janice pile in to cook the evening meal . |
| 10 | We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries . |
| 11 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Ruby confidentially but loud enough to make Rosie and Holly keel over to hear . |
| 13 | Ian , if you and Julia stand by to raise the bridge , I think we 'll do very nicely . |
| 14 | Donnison and Soto go on to divide towns in Britain into three basic categories : |
| 15 | Molloy and Carroll go on to provide more detailed figures for completion rates within their category of NSE students . |
| 16 | And Darren come in spoke to me and he says oh I Danny . |
| 17 | Last night we saw the cast and crew move in to start setting up Tonight Mike Rowbottom sees what it takes to keep things going , in Behind The Curtain . |
| 18 | But by 1750 fashion had changed — look at the new style of English landscape garden — and artists and poets set out to explore their own island in search of the picturesque ; in due course they arrived in Cumberland . |
| 19 | And people keep on buying it . |
| 20 | and people phone up to ask being a bit more kind of pro active about it |
| 21 | leeds scored and jostein lept up celebrating leeds ' goal … the other sheff utd players were needless to say shocked and silenzed and i guess jostein wont be doing too much of this sort of celebration in the future ( he , he ) . |
| 22 | Claire , Mark and Babur head off to find a car rental place . |
| 23 | As Barghoorn and Remington go on to point out , however , this did not mean that the government bureaucrats could not influence decisions and occasionally obstruct their implementation . |
| 24 | Unless road pricing is applied to all roads , irrespective of their current state of congestion , it is likely to lead to further decentralisation as the motoring public and commerce move out to avoid extra transport costs . |
| 25 | The woman and children burst out laughing again , getting up from the table and crowding round me . |
| 26 | The effects must be charming , to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele , the Chestnut , the poplar , the acacia , the horse-chestnut , cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze , then how beautiful the contrast , how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene . |
| 27 | In fine weather the steep , grassy embankment was a colourful patchwork of clothes and sheets spread out to dry . |
| 28 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 29 | Only after Dirac had predicted that there must be positrons as well as electrons ( verified in 1932 ) did he and others set out to see whether the charge and the mass of an electron can be derived from first principles . |
| 30 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |