Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 2 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 3 | Twoflower found himself fervently wishing for light . |
| 4 | The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . |
| 5 | D' ya ever work for Muni ? |
| 6 | In 1847 , during the famine in Ireland , Sutton sent over seeds of turnips , cabbages , and other vegetables to be used as possible alternatives to the diseased potatoes , and he experimented with new varieties of potato to find one better suited to cold , damp climates . |
| 7 | As the first night of the Hochhauser Season approached , Suzi Hoflin found herself increasingly torn between dread and a curious sense of wild exhilaration that was only partly to do with the excitement of appearing in a professional production . |
| 8 | Dr Sasaki shouted the name of the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man 's office and found him terribly cut by glass . |
| 9 | At Tankersley , the custom has not been continuous since its introduction , nor has it always appeared on Feast Sunday or even on a Sunday at all . |
| 10 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 11 | Has he suddenly risen in status ? ’ |
| 12 | Has he never heard of vivisection ? |
| 13 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 14 | They say it really came from Croissant , meaning crescent , because there 's a bend in the valley and the river there . |
| 15 | If Rohan really wanted control of the vineyard , would he consider it well lost for love once the first passion had cooled , as it inevitably would ? |
| 16 | Records of achievement thus rank alongside GCSE as one of the major assessment initiatives of this decade , and the two initiatives are likely to find themselves increasingly running in parallel in individual institutions . |
| 17 | ’ I have stabilized at Halflight speed , ’ I heard Posi say — and found myself almost babbling with relief that she was still functioning . |
| 18 | Let them also lay on interview training . |
| 19 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 20 | There was , however , a parliamentary by-election , in Newbury , where the party suffered its largest-ever fall in support ( 29 percentage points ) . |
| 21 | Sybille , who witnessed Laura 's behaviour with journalists , believed she always felt under attack by the English press . |
| 22 | It also allows all the fading and mixing features you normally expect from broadcast television . |
| 23 | Julian Rossiter says he nearly died from ecstasy . |
| 24 | Edward Haddon says he always dreamed of rowing for Oxford and is looking forward to the challenge . |
| 25 | Do n't do it there love in case it comes up . |
| 26 | Since then they have made themselves widely known from radio and television . |
| 27 | I told 'im ter look after yow . ’ |
| 28 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 29 | Let us also assume for simplicity that this change does not cost the company anything : it is the result , let us say , of a brainwave the production director had in his bath that morning . |
| 30 | Let us now return to Table 11.1 and look at the operational details and financial situation of the companies mentioned there in greater detail . |