Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping clear of the wharves where machinery roared and clanked as cargoes were being discharged from or loaded on to rust-streaked ships with flaking paint , Nathan tied Seawitch to the rickety wooden pontoon reserved for yachts in transit . |
| 2 | Glad of it anyhow , ’ he added as if caught out in some discourtesy . |
| 3 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 4 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 5 | Although the details contained in this brochure have been published in good faith , Somerset Tourism can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 6 | The Departments can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 7 | The Departments can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 8 | A The phone may only be collected from and delivered back to Risley Transport Services , Building 8E12 . |
| 9 | Conner , Seagate , Western Digital , Mitsubishi , Quantum and NEC are names to look for when poking around inside a machine , or if you 're thinking about upgrading your hard disk . |
| 10 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 11 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 12 | There he was in all his splendour , gazing blithely out of society-column illustrations , going into or coming out of some swank nightspot or other , with a gorgeous girl on either arm . |
| 13 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |
| 14 | Reality is not to be trifled with and sliced up in this way . |
| 15 | These include meal times , evening , going to and getting up from bed . |
| 16 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 17 | Usually dancers are leered at or looked down on whenever they mention their job , so why are Tiller Girls different ? |
| 18 | Rodney James Chapman , a director of the company , asked an industrial tribunal to lift the prohibition notice , but the tribunal upheld it except for a small area where the quarry might be worked but only under a safety system agreed by and worked out with the Inspectorate . |
| 19 | I 'll leave you in the ditch near the gate I know of and go back for my horse . ’ |
| 20 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 21 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 22 | Ground impact marks , sometimes a considerable distance from the main wreckage , should not be trampled upon or run over by rescue vehicles . |
| 23 | This led him to doubt whether authentic religious belief can properly be tied to and bound up with particular historical events . |
| 24 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 25 | After stabling our horses , my master muttered that he had business to attend to and wandered off to his chamber . |
| 26 | Such an argument , in implying that the problem is simply a question of the lack of history or of its presence , as if history were some undifferentiated entity that could just be added or taken away , stepped into or got out of , skates over the fact that the real question has always focused on the much more difficult issue of what kind of history , and of what status can be accorded to historical thought . |
| 27 | The first seven miles of this journey are extremely arduous : there is no path and progress is a struggle through tussocky grass , tough heather and naked peat hags , keeping to the clifftops where possible but often unavoidably descending into and scrambling out of the coves and gullies that break the ramparts , as well as fording the streams entering the sea from the moorlands of the interior . |
| 28 | What to do in a democratic society with the errant or aberrant citizen of genius — this question , fumbled at or glossed over by everyone who has written on Pound 's case ( jurists and psychiatrists , as well as biographers and critics ) , is here posed more starkly , and explored more searchingly , then ever before . |
| 29 | In the four processes of that planning ( DES 1989e and DES 1991a ) the starting-point is audit , followed by and fed back from successive stages of construction , implementation and evaluation of a plan . |
| 30 | all losses suffered by and claims made against the Carrier in consequence of loss of or damage to property caused by or arising out of the carriage by the Carrier of Dangerous Goods whether or not declared by the Trader as such : |