Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 3 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 4 | The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss . |
| 5 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 6 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 7 | It seems that the subtasks are arranged hierarchically and that learning follows the sequence from small or simple elements to chains and sequences . |
| 8 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 9 | In fact the Governments " minute of appointment " in 1961 set as the Committee 's terms of reference to report on and review the pattern of full-time higher education in Britain " in the light of national needs and resources " . |
| 10 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 11 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 12 | I insist on eating properly and will not skimp , even if it means altering the social calendar to suit . |
| 13 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 14 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 15 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 16 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |
| 17 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 18 | The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped . |
| 19 | Submarine fans were also formed locally and these are composed of oolitic and bioclastic grainstones and packstones ( Sannemann et al. 1978 ; Clark 1980b and in press ) . |
| 20 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 21 | Tethlis insisted that they push on but first , drawn by some irresistible influence , he must make a pilgrimage to the Altar of Khaine . |
| 22 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 23 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 24 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 25 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 26 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 27 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 28 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 29 | The first are generated by scanners and need careful handling , the accompanying bitmap for display purposes may not reproduce properly although the image will print correctly — this is caused by the difference in screen resolutions between the two systems . |
| 30 | Laid back , bang on and chilled to the gills . |