Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just marched in and set to work . |
| 2 | Using the Black-Scholes model , evaluate the following calls and puts and compare your answers with the market values given below and account for any discrepancies : . |
| 3 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 4 | Cook the beans , stirring continuously , until they are heated through and look like thick porridge . |
| 5 | Most are grown commercially and come from just half a dozen varieties — usually chosen for their red skin or because they travel well rather than because they taste good . |
| 6 | The rules of a factory may be written down and serve as strict regulators of behaviour . |
| 7 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 8 | And it seems a bit much to suddenly turn round when you 're grown up and say to the mother , ‘ No , you should n't be like that . |
| 9 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 10 | More than that , Pilate believed that he was the King of the Jews , that 's why he had it written up and put over his cross . |
| 11 | Now EMF are fed up and want to be serious , spiritual rock stars and mates with Bono — and still on a diet of dangerous drugs and sex . |
| 12 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 14 | But sometimes you ca n't even identify an intervening variable , they just seem to have occurred together or arise in some way . |
| 15 | In the midst of the global gene drain , more than 1,000 small family seed houses have either been bought out or come under the control of some of the world 's largest chemical companies . |
| 16 | Food , desperately needed now that produce from last year 's harvest is running out , had become garbage . |
| 17 | She puts the Christmas card through this door that 's it ripped up and put through her door . |
| 18 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 19 | ‘ There is one Mr. Milne , officer at Oldcambus , a very old man quite worn out & unfitt for that station & is expected that he ca n't live much longer ’ , an eager applicant for a place advised Hugh Scott , the member of parliament of Berwickshire . |
| 20 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 21 | The Eleven-plus , like all crises , threatened the pattern of family relationships , and all the family could do in order to maintain equilibrium was to ensure that each member remain entrenched in or return to his or her habitual role . |
| 22 | Precedent has been laid down that cause for separation lies where a spouse resorts to " unnatural practices " with a third party and , perhaps , where a spouse submits to " indecent liberties " by a person of the opposite or the same sex ( Mogg v. |
| 23 | Others — anemones , winkles , starfish — are affixed in or move into sheltered places , under rocks , and remain cool and reasonably moist and protected from pounding . |
| 24 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 25 | We 'll get it cut off and put in the bin , that 's what they 'll do with it . |
| 26 | By the time he had driven through , the door of the integral garage had been swung up and open by those waiting anxiously in the house . |
| 27 | ‘ It has to do with working out my relationship with my son [ Jack , aged eight , lives in London — Roth and the mother of his child have split up but remain on good terms ] . |
| 28 | To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne . |
| 29 | Return along drive past points where it was joined earlier and descend into minor valley with pool on left , turning right onto another track as soon as drive starts to ascend again . |
| 30 | Litter should not be thrown down but put in the bins provided . |