Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves getting the aircraft into an attitude with the tail-wheel or skid just off the ground . |
| 2 | To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way . |
| 3 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 4 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 5 | You may , of course , add to your letter later in writing or say more about the case at the Appeal Committee hearing . |
| 6 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 7 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 8 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 9 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 10 | If you start to choke on something , put your fist into the soft spot under the middle of the ribcage and keeping ‘ punching ’ yourself , or bend forwards over the back of a chair and bounce your abdomen off it . |
| 11 | Essential for sets , you can sit back and relax with your favourite mag or catch up on the gossip with the girl under the next dryer ! |
| 12 | When we feel resentment or act out of a sense of duty it can sometimes be seen and felt by the person concerned . |
| 13 | we 're gon na have to have a manual involvement or override there by the project coordinator to , to , |
| 14 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 15 | She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot . |
| 16 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 17 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 18 | When products and processes are so protean , companies grow or decline not with the market for some specific good , but with the creative and adaptive capacity of their workers . |
| 19 | Courtship occurs throughout the breeding season , as individuals pair before laying for breeding in the same year , or pair later in the season for breeding in the following year . |
| 20 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 21 | It is a kind of mystery tour , with an unimaginable destination ; not surprisingly many pupils fall asleep or jump off during the journey . |
| 22 | ‘ My mam says he 's prob'ly in prison or run off with a bit of stuff , ’ said one of the hostiles in the playground one milk-break . |
| 23 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 24 | Although they were well placed for chalk , all other commodities had to be carried by rail or barge up-river to the works . |
| 25 | The other Non-academic Parties will also notify the Lead Organization of the sale or transfer out of the Project of any capital equipment for which any claim for payment has been made under this Agreement . |
| 26 | Its heroes do not characteristically commit suicide or ride off into the sunset : they settle down , marry , and make comfortable and elaborate treaties with the world they live in . |
| 27 | Whatever you do , make sure you avoid that head or fist — just moving your body or face slightly to the side will often be enough , providing you do n't pull against their grip . |
| 28 | This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play . |
| 29 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 30 | Nor did Mme Guérigny visit the cinema or theatre , or drop in on a neighbour . |