Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 2 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 3 | Such a corporation , it was held , should have the same power to maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured as the law allowed to a corporation at common law , and the power to sue for libel or slander for the protection of its reputation in the carrying on of its business . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you 've heard or have you heard about priests when say a priest has a vocation , a call from God ? |
| 5 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 6 | Ignorance is no plea in law , so people have to be taught about safety while travelling , and encouraged to develop a positive attitude and strict self-discipline in relation to prevention of accidents . |
| 7 | If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom . |
| 8 | Leon Kennedy passed a hand across his face , drawing off expression and swallowing . |
| 9 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 10 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 11 | The building industry , given an open field , competing for purchasers and paying a competitive price for its materials , will automatically be stimulated to invest in developing these modern methods , knowing that the reward of successful enterprise will in due course be reaped . |
| 12 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 13 | For another , statistically significant associations between standards of work on the one hand and resource levels and the strength of a head teacher 's influence on the other , which are even stronger than those involving subject match , are not developed through discussion or connected to policy suggestions . |
| 14 | Jamaicans , Filipinos , Vietnamese , Pakistanis , Uruguayans , Guatemalans , Chinese , Portuguese and Italians jostle for seats and hang from the straps along with remnants of the Anglo population like me . |
| 15 | Though it is meant to be used to keep out the cold , we had brought six of them to cover the tents and reflect away the sun 's heat , and to signal for help if needed . |
| 16 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 17 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 18 | At the same time , old Watson understood that differences would arise between managers and managed , and a disaffected employee could do the company 's image harm in the small-town American environment of upstate New York . |
| 19 | We flew round corners and bounced over cobbled junctions , ignoring traffic lights and scattering innocent pedestrians , speeding through puddles and swerving to avoid the steaming manhole covers . |
| 20 | This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it . |
| 21 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 22 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 23 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 24 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 25 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 26 | If you roll a number on the artillery dice then this is the distance in inches the missile veers off target as shown by the arrow on the scatter dice . |
| 27 | But though people listen enthusiastically to Mister C slagging off hardcore and singing the praises of progressive house , you get the feeling things are just a bit different here . |
| 28 | fell Thursday night , she got up to go to toilet during night and fell , Michael was sleeping there fortunately cos he 's working in Yorkshire and she got a pain on her elbow anyway in the morning , so he took her to hospital and she 'd fractured and they operated on her , same day , two hour operation , I have n't heard anything yet have we , we rang |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 30 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |