Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 People may shout , mouth words , wave their arms about or feel generally inadequate and give up .
2 starting just past the river and continuing farther than the places I had names for or had ever seen .
3 I can do that , probably a number of other people can do it too , but the vast majority would n't have the remotest idea what to listen for or know how it is done .
4 The work plan timetable will highlight specific requirements which must be either budgeted for or planned as appropriate .
5 So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things .
6 These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about .
7 Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries .
8 And he came back after and carried on ?
9 It was largely based on the design for S. Sernin in Toulouse and was started after but completed earlier than the French church ( 423 ) .
10 As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers .
11 Clause 11(b) is so far-ranging that an alert professional insurance adviser would probably need some explanation of the likely liability of the haulier ‘ howsoever or whensoever caused as a result of or arising out of the supply to the client by the company of drivers ’ .
12 The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 .
13 The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 .
14 The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder or at his request such other person as may be the owner of any rug clothing or personal effect against loss of or damage thereto by fire theft or attempted theft or by accidental means while in or on any motor car described in the Schedule
15 The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along .
16 The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along .
17 We needed a word processor that anybody could sit in front of and use quickly and easily .
18 Fucking … it 's the thing the human race does most of and says least about .
19 Pupils are able , through reading and responding to literature , to develop an understanding of and control over an ever-widening range of written forms .
20 Women have been at the forefront of many community health initiatives , reclaiming knowledge of and control over their own bodies ; redefining their own experience of health and illness ; rejecting inappropriate high-tech birthing methods ; questioning the over-prescribing of drugs ; revitalising the role of traditional medicine .
21 Article 3. ( 1 ) The governments of the FRG and the GDR reaffirm their renunciation of the manufacture and possession of and control over nuclear , biological and chemical weapons .
22 ‘ The local authority sought orders from the court by which the perpetrator of the abuse would be forbidden to have contact with the children , a process approved of and followed previously by judges and local authorities throughout the country . ’
23 Ensuring a multicultural approach in schools is one way we can make sure children are aware of and respond positively to diversity .
24 So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk .
25 And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it .
26 I 'll leave you in the ditch near the gate I know of and go back for my horse . ’
27 She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over .
28 Two things enable you to create good programs : knowing what the sounds you hear are made up of and knowing how your rack works .
29 Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job .
30 That is a record to be proud of and to build on in the future .
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