Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't .
2 Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on .
3 When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face .
4 But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ?
5 Send your legal questions to Roger Peters at Hospitality , .
6 The storm builds to a particular intensity .
7 ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike .
8 In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available .
9 Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all .
10 Much of a research chemist 's ingenuity goes into devising pathways of feasible intermediates between starting chemicals and desired end-products .
11 When not so transfixed , they often sit at tables , strewn with computer outputs over which they pore like possessed students of a cabbalistic text .
12 So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box .
13 The strength of this support differs between species and effects the role the male plays in the social dynamics of the harem and the types of relationship that maintain the structure .
14 Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling .
15 The story goes like this .
16 THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year .
17 If you have n't then the story goes like this … .
18 In Benjamin 's dualistic conception , allegory refers to bits and pieces of every-day life — often discarded objects , sometimes relics — that together constitute ‘ myths ’ through which individuals in a given historical period understand the social world .
19 At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims .
20 The Labour Party ‘ power hoggers ’ David Marquand refers to will strongly resist this approach , as being marginal to the real issues .
21 Mark Kozelek thinks about finding someone else to sing his songs , so he can hide all the time .
22 to transfer the lump sum so that that income goes to the one with the .
23 In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common .
24 It will automatically calculate , for example , what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items .
25 Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities .
26 He has proposed that the civil list be abolished and that the Royal family live off the proceeds of the crown estate , whose income goes at present direct to the Exchequer .
27 The intense involvement which can soon develop makes programming one of those rather rare activities in which time can cease to exist and the passage of hours goes by unnoticed .
28 Similarly , the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities .
29 It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 .
30 While a Hague Rules inspired bill of lading can be challenged by an issuing bank on the basis that Article 3(3) of the Hague Rules defers to municipal law for unlisted requirements , decisional law does not reveal any such challenge .
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