Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 2 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 3 | It is simple work and easily got on with . |
| 4 | As soon as one patch of vegetables is cleared , the soil is revitalised with compost and a handful of organic fertiliser and lightly pricked over before replanting . |
| 5 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 6 | could n't help thinking if it was modern day a woman that 's manically depressed dreamt that , dreamt she had , she was definitely mental , she would be stuck in a a mental home and just kept under with er |
| 7 | She took the flowers from her hair and carefully stepped out of the tunic . |
| 8 | As a result of this change I was ‘ promoted ’ chairman and virtually cut off from any effective direction of the company . |
| 9 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | Beaten 16 times in the last 17 years over the 4 mile Putney to Mortlake course and virtually written off by the bookies , the Light Blues insist they can turn the tide . |
| 11 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 12 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 13 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 14 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 15 | His work done , Nation collected his fee and promptly set off in search of other work , as did any other jobbing writer . |
| 16 | For all his achievements and popularity , Jones was again refused a commission in the French navy and instead sent back to the United States with despatches . |
| 17 | She grunted assent , and he filled the coffee percolator , set it on the stove and then rooted around in the refrigerator for the ketchup , while he wondered how to approach the subject of his going to New York . |
| 18 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 19 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 20 | Tony Bottoms ( 1983 : 176–7 ) has compared this notion to that of the ‘ sin-bin ’ in ice hockey : the player who has committed a foul is excluded ( or ‘ disqualified ’ ) from the game for a while and symbolically marked out as an offender , but after a term of fixed duration the player is allowed to rejoin the game as a full participant or ‘ requalified subject ’ . |
| 21 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 22 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 23 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 24 | She was a docile creature and merely looked round at me as she cropped the grass ; and her eyes were no longer sunken but bright and full . |
| 25 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 26 | It is from Zakarpatská Ukrajina , the Czech Ukraine or sub-Carpathian Ruthenia , first annexed by Hungary and later taken by the Soviet Union and never given back at the end of the war in 1945 . |
| 27 | And when it 's still green if you get a little knife and just slit down like that , a sap comes out , all |
| 28 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 29 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 30 | By that time I 'd really stopped noticing whether people are male or female and just got on with the physics . |