Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like to cancel that down and see what that comes to . |
| 2 | Luckily he had fallen asleep again before he could find out who was responsible . |
| 3 | bring that up and |
| 4 | ‘ But I bring that up because you were asking about how you get back into it after that length of time . |
| 5 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 6 | If you bring that in as well , we 'll get everything sorted out . |
| 7 | We 'll make that up as we go along . |
| 8 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 9 | Tear that out and keep that by your side because that gives you all the four possibilities . |
| 10 | When when when people receive that they tear that off and the flap drops down . |
| 11 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 12 | The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 13 | All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 14 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 15 | No , no they just take your word for it and now I have got as I said , I 've got that , I 've got to paint that over and reseal and I 've got to make sure that nobody makes a mess in there , but the plumber said what you really need to do is to get rid of this cheap and tatty , horrible plastic tray which does n't come right to the edge of the tiles |
| 16 | Nor did the Socialists abandon political appointments ; indeed , the growing number of party activists occupying senior management posts in public enterprises ( see Diario 16 , 30 January 1985 ) illustrated the government 's belief that the introduction of its policies of commercialism was an operation demanding political rather than purely managerial skill . |
| 17 | send it down to use yourself , but to be able to carry that through and to , to go on to , to be sincere , and I respect that it 's important to be sincere . |
| 18 | involves hypothetical rather than real choices . |
| 19 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 20 | No , I would say I want the same school , you can do with me what you like , Paul I suggest you do n't throw that away before I loose my temper with you . |
| 21 | Would you like to see that again or do you think you could manage it now ? |
| 22 | We did cover that yesterday because obviously it 's an absolutely crucial point , and when we do a one-day course , we actually make people do one minute against the clock . |
| 23 | These represent times when the land rose , the seas drained away and the sea bed became dry so that the deposits that had accumulated on it were eroded away . |
| 24 | And I became pregnant again and they were falling over themselves to do an abortion for me . |
| 25 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 26 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 27 | About 10000 years ago , over 15 genera of Central American large herbivores became extinct so that the megafauna , previously comparable with that of Africa before the decimations caused by man , largely disappeared . |
| 28 | I realized that sooner or later the immense resources of the Reichmann family would be used to cover all traces of the past . |
| 29 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 30 | You got that out and you found this horrible hydrogen carbonate thing left over . |