Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 2 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 3 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 4 | With a Scottish mandate , Labour has progressed from the ‘ feeble fifty ’ to the ‘ ineffectual forty-nine ’ as it sits impotently at Westminster because of its allegiance to the Union and because of the English desire for Conservative governments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 7 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 8 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 9 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 10 | She got on with children and dedicated herself to their wellbeing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 13 | " 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 . |
| 14 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 15 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 16 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 17 | The argument relied on to support that submission is set out in the judgment in the following passage : ‘ The argument there is that on their arrival there is no home and there is no financial support forthcoming from the plaintiff who himself lives on state benefits . |
| 18 | In Colombia , many of the peasants were persuaded to give up their coffee and cocoa trees , which though not highly productive , could be relied on to produce and , instead , to take up seasonal crops such as corn , soybeans and tomatoes . |
| 19 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 20 | In the meantime they resolved to preach vigorously against bishops and the Prayer Book . |
| 21 | Coke 's juridical ideas lived on through Hale and Mansfield and his political ideas filter through the work of Blackstone and Burke . |
| 22 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 23 | In developing general SVQs , SCOTVEC has consulted widely with industry and with educationalists . |
| 24 | The importance of maintaining links and collaborating effectively with parents and children is also indicated in the literature ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Aldgate et al . , |
| 25 | " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass . |
| 26 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 27 | So we wanted this systematic question to go right through Whitehall and to greatly reduce the functional load on departments . |
| 28 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 29 | It differs widely from marriage as seen in earlier periods of social development or in some other Western countries . |
| 30 | Miranda Richardson plays effectively against type as his cold-eyed colleague in arms in a film that retains its hard-edged sense of danger to the end . |