Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought the labour market conditions are also a vital ingredient if profitability is to be passed on or shared out in higher wages . |
| 2 | But , if you are planning to move on or move out , you may not receive someone 's approval or permission . |
| 3 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 4 | For more information on an integrated spaceglazing service that takes you from concept to completion , call Transplastix on or fill in and send the coupon below . |
| 5 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 6 | Hypnotherapy is also useful , except with those susceptible to depression , since this can be brought on or made much worse by hypnosis . |
| 7 | Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because |
| 8 | Switching On or Switching Off ? |
| 9 | These baby universes are so small that one would not notice them joining on or branching off . |
| 10 | What else is going on or coming up … its all in our action round up … |
| 11 | Phone now on or pop in to see them at |
| 12 | His hands , however , were so frozen he could not hold on or get back . |
| 13 | They provided traction ( pulling carts , ploughs , harrows etc. ) , meat , leather , and a host of other resources like bone ( for glue ) , grease , sinews , together with milk ( for butter and cheese to store ) and manure — either deposited on or taken out to arable fields . |
| 14 | The motivation to go on or turn back depends on an awful lot of factors . |
| 15 | We can make a choice between struggling on or surrendering forever to the forces of death . ’ |
| 16 | you can move them in and out of word processing ( WP ) packages so that a message received in e-mail can be incorporated into a document which you wish to send on or work on ; and , |
| 17 | When the boss disappears , would you work on or wimp out ? |
| 18 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 19 | It all ended in something like farce , with Capel and Russell unsure whether to press on or come off , but there were still 31 to get and the light was wretched when Gooch called them in . |
| 20 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 21 | A third reason for isostatic anomalies is that there are dynamic forces present in the sub-lithospheric mantle which are capable of actively dragging down or pushing up the lithosphere . |
| 22 | in exactly the same way as the Suffolk Punch would get down or stoop on to its knees in its efforts to draw a full or heavy load . |
| 23 | But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South . |
| 24 | He 's never sure whether to patronise the audience for their stupidity , understand and gee them on , cool them down or join in . |
| 25 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 26 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 27 | Do n't climb on the chair with your feet , your socks , come on you 'll hurt yourself you sit down or get off ! |
| 28 | Back down or get out , Major warns Delors |
| 29 | Then repeat the above but , this time , pause for a moment before any action while you consciously refuse to sit down or stand up in your normal way . |
| 30 | I told the witnesses yesterday , you may sit down or stand just as you wish . |