Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking for somewhere to turn when she suddenly realised there were buildings ahead of her . |
| 2 | Apart from moisture vapour , the air also contains millions of tiny plant spores which float around looking for somewhere to live and multiply . |
| 3 | Hotel coupons paved the way for package holidays because tourists paid for facilities in advance in their own currency , in their own country instead of hunting for somewhere to stay and paying hotel bills as they went . |
| 4 | The impressive Charter which we had for long presented as our original 1727 ‘ birth certificate ’ is not . |
| 5 | Have those sexual practices which were for long condemned as " deviant " or " perverted " really become general ? |
| 6 | In key respects the views of Whitehall coincided with those of the Central Electricity Board , which had for long felt that its own , indirect control of power station construction was inadequate . |
| 7 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 8 | Lakatos 's rhetoric , then , does not leave room for much doubt that he wished to defend a rationalist position and deplored the relativist position . |
| 9 | Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 in spite of his pipe-smoking wife Rachel being branded ‘ adulteress ’ and ‘ whore ’ for purportedly marrying before she was divorced . |
| 10 | One simple example generalises life-style in terms of four categories , thus : i ) upwardly mobile , ambitious : seeking a better and more affluent life-style , principally through better paid and more interesting work , and a higher material standard of living . |
| 11 | Hindering the porting effort are the tools Microsoft provides , good for only compile and debug . |
| 12 | There 's also been a particularly extreme case ; last year in July when a Northampton man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for merely kissing and fondling another man in a churchyard in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | Althusser therefore criticizes the Annales historians for merely arguing that periodizations differ for different times , and that each time has its own rhythms . |
| 14 | Even though it is undoubtedly more common in practice to find phrases — such as perhaps gutted and cleaned — as postnominal non-restrictive qualifiers , the single adjective is also fully acceptable to English grammar . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 16 | The yard were adamant in insisting on the increased price without having any legal justification for so doing and the owners realised that the yard would not accept anything other than an unqualified agreement to the increase . |
| 17 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 18 | After much sniffing and swishing , the judges decided that the best drink was a Perry , produced by a small cider maker from Dymock in Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | After much sorting and transcribing , One Leg ; The Life and Letters of the First Marquess of Anglesey , 1768–1854 appeared in 1961 . |
| 20 | So , after much jockeying and a few power lunches ( although all three contestants for the top spot — McDonald , Stewart , and Somerville — deny this ) Trevor has got the top job and a salary reckoned close to £125,000 a year . |
| 21 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 22 | After much huffing and puffing , the government backed down from implementing most of these proposals . |
| 23 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 24 | After much balancing and juggling with cocoa , book and dog they all three eventually reached the attic . |
| 25 | After further coaxing and at some risk of another outburst , the fräulein continued , ‘ By this afternoon I was feeling much better . |
| 26 | Pin temporarily after carefully aligning and with the rear end flush with the trailing edge . |
| 27 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 28 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 29 | Address complaints about badly/deceptively packaged or overpackaged products to The Packaging Complaints Council , 10 Greycoat Place , London SW1P 15B . |
| 30 | By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one . |