Example sentences of "the [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be seen from the dares and sites of his drawings that he was an intrepid walker in regions where the only places of rest were shepherds ' cottages . |
| 2 | Thanks to the Dares and the Rossitters , it had had a good start , but all innovations are eyed askance in small villages — and Overclyst was very small indeed . |
| 3 | A remarkable film of 1955 , Rebel without a Cause , claimed as ‘ new realism ’ when it was first screened , showed delinquent boys and girls in the mid-teens proving their worth in ‘ chicken ’ contests whose violence , distorted as it is by social pressures , does express a genuine personal pride : the dares and challenges of the groups of Hell 's Angels today , leading to criminal actions , have a distant debased origin in the concept of honour . |
| 4 | Queuing for the bring and buy . |
| 5 | I hope you all have a nice birthday and many more to come now last week the flower box raised one pound forty two , the raffle four pound forty six and the bring and buy two pound sixty making a total of eight pound fourteen |
| 6 | The employer appealed to the EAT but the EAT agreed with the Industrial Tribunal . |
| 7 | He would be able , provided that he was of age , to bar the entail and dispose of the fee simple . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll ring the scupper and tell him you 're coming , ’ said his PA . |
| 9 | Considering they come from the pick and mix department at |
| 10 | the pick and mix department from oh brilliant . |
| 11 | You go into the pick and mix and seventy five P a quarter , so you get next to nothing in the bottom of the bag |
| 12 | The Make or Buy Decision |
| 13 | The Make or Buy Decision |
| 14 | Appendix 7.1 The Make or Buy Decision — worked examples |
| 15 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 16 | I saw the Wing Commander who was to do the reconnoitre and give the signal for the fusing of the lights talking anxiously to Ryan . |
| 17 | This acts like a cork in a bottle , stopping the borrow and preventing any attack on the soft flesh beneath it . |
| 18 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 19 | A code is no more than a ‘ perspective of quotations ’ ( p. 20 ) , and ‘ its only logic is that of the already-done or the already-read ’ ( p. 19 ) . |
| 20 | Joe was in the spearhead but John also wrote of amazing scenes he witnessed as his company moved through the countryside . |
| 21 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
| 22 | Yeah , but I , I think the reason I feel a bit bitter about it is living round here , you see all the dirties and the scruffies , you get annoyed , absolute no order , they 've crawled into the system right up to and doing openly in front of you |
| 23 | suffered at home and because of all the dirties and scruffies making a fuss they do n't get attended to properly |
| 24 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 25 | If you are still suffering from the thins and tops , try the following exercise : Using a-7 iron , hit 30 balls with your heels 8″ apart . |
| 26 | Neither approach takes as its central concern the exercise of procedures for meaning negotiation , which require the relating and mutual adjustment of systemic and schematic knowledge for the realization of indexical value , after the manner previously described , and which can provide the learner with the opportunity to learn the language through using it . |
| 27 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 28 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 30 | In one graceful , easy movement , Rory swung her legs off the sun-lounger and stood up , horribly aware of his dark eyes on her . |