Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 2 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 3 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 4 | Has he explained about last night ? ’ |
| 5 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
| 6 | When they first met for real the fierce , cold , autocratic , heroically self-made man 's beady eye and cockily addressed him as ‘ Washy ’ to his face , well , petrification set in , sometimes terminal . |
| 7 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 8 | Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that . |
| 9 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 10 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 11 | Campaign financing is encouraged and yet limited through structural features of the American political system . |
| 12 | there , which I got off one of my |
| 13 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 14 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 15 | ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’ |
| 16 | He sort of pulled backwards and hit that chair , got off that chair . |
| 17 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 18 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 19 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 20 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 21 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 22 | There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it |
| 23 | I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me . |
| 24 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 25 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 26 | Gastric varices are particularly difficult to diagnose during active bleeding . |
| 27 | Rachel 's face glistened in the gloom as she urged herself to her climax — sweat and staring eyes , tongue darting between dry lips , breath panting . |
| 28 | Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services |
| 29 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 30 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |