Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 3 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 4 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 5 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 6 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 7 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 8 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 9 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 10 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 11 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 12 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 13 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |
| 14 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 15 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 16 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 17 | They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week . |
| 18 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 19 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 20 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 21 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 22 | Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about . |
| 23 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 24 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 25 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 26 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 27 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 28 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 29 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 30 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |