Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 2 | The trick is to paint the walls the colour of the background of the paper , using a matt emulsion paint , then cut the paper into equal rectangles or squares and stick them on the walls in regularly spaced ‘ panels ’ . |
| 3 | Despite much popular misconception , there are relatively few individuals or families that find themselves in this position . |
| 4 | It might also be prudent to make notes of any conversations which have a major bearing on your status or prospects and retain them in your job file . |
| 5 | As with gonorrhoea , non-gonococcal infection in the female does not produce signs or symptoms that enable it to be diagnosed clinically . |
| 6 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |
| 7 | Arrange them in lines or rectangles and fit them with spots or floods or downlights or a mixture , depending on your needs . |
| 8 | To make a claim is to articulate a public statement that one has ‘ reasons or grounds that put one in a position to engage in performative and propositional claiming ’ . |
| 9 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 10 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 11 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 12 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 13 | Wash and chop the apples and raisins and put them in a plastic bucket with one crushed campden tablet . |
| 14 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 15 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 16 | You can define a whole library of procedures and functions and include them in your programs . |
| 17 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 18 | If you do n't learn , at school they 'd give you detention and lines and punish you for not doing it , if you do n't do it at college it 'll be your mistake and your fault |
| 19 | The fourteen founders decided to work towards a text in collaboration with gallery owners and auctioneers and submit it to the French government , within the next few months if possible , in order for it to become law . |
| 20 | ‘ They want to charge you with all the murders and assaults and take you to court , day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | Alternatives are needed — players with flair who can outwit defences with jinking and sidesteps and cause plenty of confusion . |
| 22 | ‘ And the sleep fragrance releases smells of roses , the tropics and things that remind you of sleepy lazy days . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We will review the matter at that stage ’ he said , adding that ‘ henceforth Mr O'Reilly will conduct his business within the rules and regulations and acquaint himself with these regulations . ’ |
| 24 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 25 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 26 | First we discard all the subjective labels and comments and replace them with objective descriptions of behaviour ( 3 ) . |
| 27 | Pot up the summer 's fuchsias and geraniums and store them in a frost-free position over winter . |
| 28 | They come in during the winter time , and take off their coats and sweaters and put them in the big dryer for a sixpenny warm-up . |
| 29 | We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand . |
| 30 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |