Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 2 | They must shout at them , slap their faces , magically coerce them , or manage to force them out of the corridor . |
| 3 | Of course , you must make sure you protect the baby from a toddler who pinches or slaps or tries to tip her out of the pram when your back is turned . |
| 4 | On no account should the patient be allowed or encouraged to get himself around by dragging his foot and leaning on the furniture . |
| 5 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 6 | If you are interested in attending one of these days or wish to find our more about Faith and Justice in our Diocese , please contact Brendan at , . |
| 7 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 8 | When injury or strain keep you away from your sport |
| 9 | Animals would have known , would have caught his scent , or have seen him suddenly among them , and they 'd have turned and fled as a herd will turn from a predator . |
| 10 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 11 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 12 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 13 | The myth of the entrepreneurial hero is as old as America and has served us well in a number of ways . |
| 14 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 16 | French skin specialist Yves Rocher ( 7 Gees Court , London W1 ) , introduced its first treatment cosmetics collection , Luminelle , to Britain in 1979 , and has updated it constantly since then with new colour ideas . |
| 17 | There 's a regular traffic of straw from here to the west country which is mostly pasture-land and needs to order it in from outside the area for animal feed . |
| 18 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 19 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 20 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 21 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |
| 22 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 23 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 24 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 25 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 26 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
| 27 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 28 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 29 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 30 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |