Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 2 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 3 | Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary . |
| 4 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 5 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 7 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 8 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 9 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 10 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 11 | As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage . |
| 12 | Whether this chairman goes along with the president or not may turn on many factors , but bargaining is very likely to play a part . |
| 13 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 14 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 15 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 16 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 17 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 18 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 19 | Executives who commit corporate crime are not coerced into it , they do not necessarily have to go along with the advice or instructions of superiors . |
| 20 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 21 | Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong . |
| 22 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 23 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 24 | It is unfortunate that the verse saga ascribed to Llywarch Hen , which celebrates Cynddylan 's defence of the River Tern in Shropshire on the Powys border and laments the destruction of his residence at Pengwern , situated perhaps on the Wrekin or at nearby Wrockwardine , is essentially unhistorical , but the statement , ‘ I saw armies on the ground of the field of Cogwy [ Maes Cogwy ] and the battle full of affliction : Cynddylan was an ally ’ , may possess value as an independent fragment . |
| 25 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 26 | Teaching is the ability to communicate effectively to the student or pupil , enabling learning to take place . |
| 27 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 28 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 29 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 30 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |