Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 2 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 3 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 4 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 5 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 6 | I went an sat down wid an reasoned wid Mr Ayatollah . |
| 7 | To ensure the rights laid down in or following from this treaty , they shall especially guarantee freedom of contract , freedom to exercise a trade , freedom of establishment and occupation , and freedom of movement of Germans in the entire currency area , freedom to form associations to safeguard and enhance working and economic conditions and … ownership of land and means of production by private investors … |
| 8 | Large numbers of us in this country are getting fed up of being talked down to and dictated to by the existing planning , architectural and development establishment . |
| 9 | erm erm concentration put on of where pumping into us , there came back a further report on how one would win that and as I remember it , the professional advise was we should have twenty but Charles and his I nearly said men but progress erm . |
| 10 | The figure might wait till a drone swooped nearby and fire up at it — just as if shooting at Lexandro . |
| 11 | The cutting , too , has meaning : fast , significant , hinting , pausing for an instant on an idea then darting away as if to shrink from a risky suggestion . |
| 12 | Then in a flash it dashes away as if fleeing in panic . |
| 13 | The US Fish and Wildlife Service had been expected to reach a decision soon on whether to call for a ban or not . |
| 14 | A decision will be taken shortly on whether to invest in a more advanced E-mail package and , if so , which one . |
| 15 | Try not to or try to ? |
| 16 | The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret . |
| 17 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 18 | standing stiffly as if boxed by shadow : |
| 19 | Then she was flying off as if caught by the wind . |
| 20 | Both the pulsar and its companion have masses close to and move in tight orbits which would almost fit inside the Sun ( is one solar mass ) . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a few teachers who you can get on with and talk to . |
| 22 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 23 | His/her foul body shone phosphorescently as if lit from within ; as if his/her flesh acted as a window to a lascivious light from elsewhere . |
| 24 | Hope shook his head and sat down carefully as if to concentrate on his tea leaves . |
| 25 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 26 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 27 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 28 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 29 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 30 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |