Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |
| 2 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 3 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 4 | Further practical experiences with space and shape may be gained through play with junk boxes and other materials large enough for the children to sit in and use in imaginative play as trains or cars . |
| 5 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it offered only a static picture of the corporate executive and fails to visualize him as caught in and conditioned by organizational processes of career advancement . |
| 7 | Then jealousy and anxiety moved in and squatted like diseased vagrants . |
| 8 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 9 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 10 | The task of parents and teachers was to supply books and information , to provide sympathy and encouragement , sometimes to sum up and enlarge on particular questions . |
| 11 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 13 | It can be torn up and stuffed into awkward shapes ; cut to size and layered ; and used on the horizontal or held vertically in a grid . |
| 14 | Astonishingly ornate decorations which were set on top of the yokes of working oxen , for example , in the form of painted wooden ‘ towers ’ anything up to two feet high , partly hollowed out and fitted with small bells . |
| 15 | As they understood it , after a short while Balbinder might be sorted out and returned to mainstream . |
| 16 | You have to use these methods because there are fifty cassettes coming in every day and you need yours to be picked out and heard with particular care . |
| 17 | Er when we last did the work there in nineteen eighty nine he 'd , he 'd provided Gwyneth with three machines which they moved round and put on different places for us . |
| 18 | We are located at Flaxton House where there is a mature garden which visitors are free to wander round and enjoy in rural peace and quiet . |
| 19 | Cook the beans , stirring continuously , until they are heated through and look like thick porridge . |
| 20 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 21 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 22 | Non-washable papers just need brushing down or rubbing with stale bread or a soft rubber . |
| 23 | The rules of a factory may be written down and serve as strict regulators of behaviour . |
| 24 | Expenditure is then either written off or transferred to tangible fixed assets . |
| 25 | Cadfael , who could sleep or wake virtually at will , always felt the particular solemnity of the night offices , and the charged vastness of the darkened vault above , where the candlelight ebbed out and died into lofty distances that might or might not stretch into infinity . |
| 26 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
| 27 | Complete the coupon , cut out and send to Good Housekeeping , PO Box 50 , FREEPOST , Bromley , Kent BR2 9TT . |
| 28 | In this sense of the term , regionalism is a view from the centre looking out and suffers from similar tensions to those faced by would-be planners . |
| 29 | Certainly , it is usually more comfortable for the salesperson to call upon old contacts , but the nature of much industrial selling is that , because product life is long , sustained sales growth depends upon searching out and selling to new customers . |
| 30 | It is a good idea to list the positive and negative consequences of dieting on an index card , which you can then carry around and refer to prior to eating , or exercising . |