Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But it is certainly possible to argue for a systemic answer in which nations or cultures or , to use a phrase from Wittgenstein , ‘ forms of life ’ , account for what goes on within them .
2 The presenting problem should be recognised , for example , ‘ Your niece wondered if you would like us to arrange for you to come out for the day once a week ? ’
3 It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth .
4 Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time .
5 Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out .
6 ‘ We may be out of the running but we can still have a big say in who goes through to the United States , ’ said Hughes .
7 What pressures his wife brought to bear on him to come around to this decision I am not sure .
8 As the NHS did not get a ‘ grant ’ for community care , the temptation will be to concentrate on what goes on inside brick walls and let the rest go hang .
9 I want to you look up for me .
10 Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities .
11 As Taylor rightly says , most academics simply do not feel competent to comment on what goes on outside their discipline , and even if they do , there are powerful professional and institutional demarcations which deter them from doing so .
12 A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away .
13 Your life has just begun and you 're walking across what turns out to be Salisbury Plain .
14 The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic .
15 It is the first I have heard of anything going on around Darlington , ’ he said .
16 She told the Liverpool inquest that on March 9 this year they had argued about her going out for a drink with some friends in the city centre .
17 They all turned towards her when she entered and way was made for her to go up to the counter .
18 But then the baby would stir in its sleep and put up one tiny pink hand , perhaps seeking for something to hold on to .
19 Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table .
20 The day came for me to go back to work .
21 So in future we hope that , if anyone needs to have an up-to-date picture of the reserves in , say , Nova Scotia , they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document or wait for someone to get back to them . ’
22 Revealingly , they often speak of themselves coming out of the ‘ LISP community ’ .
23 Most whites likely to sympathise with it flounced out of his National Party long ago .
24 Match with one picked up in Amsterdam six weeks ago . ’
25 Its ability to do this depends upon what goes on within the system itself , i.e. who has power , who makes decisions , who implements decisions and so on .
26 Did I tell you , had Gary paid for his er insurance on that , that er tt if anything happens to him going over to France , he 's insured
27 The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games .
28 At first I could not believe you thought this was the house and later … well , I enjoyed listening to you going on about it .
29 But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses .
30 You see , Jack Scamp was absolutely stark-staring red-mist fucking paranoid jealous when it came to anyone messing about with his wife .
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