Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 2 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 3 | Clause 11(b) is so far-ranging that an alert professional insurance adviser would probably need some explanation of the likely liability of the haulier ‘ howsoever or whensoever caused as a result of or arising out of the supply to the client by the company of drivers ’ . |
| 4 | The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 . |
| 5 | The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 . |
| 6 | I 'll leave you in the ditch near the gate I know of and go back for my horse . ’ |
| 7 | That is a record to be proud of and to build on in the future . |
| 8 | For as we mature in the Christian life so we come to recognise that there are still unconverted areas in our life which need to be repented of and handed over to God . |
| 9 | And do n't get below your minimum safe height until you are in sight of and lined up with your runway . |
| 10 | That evening Valeria and I discussed the problem of whether to carry on with our mission or not . |
| 11 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 12 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 13 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 14 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 15 | And in fact the there , most of the traffic calming is actually being paid for and carried out by the developer for that scheme . |
| 16 | ( c ) No partner should carry on any business which competes with the firm or from which he derives benefit at the expense of the firm Section 30 of the Partnership Act provides as follows : If a partner , without the consent of the other partners , carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with that of the firm , he must account for and pay over to the firm all profits made by him in that business . |
| 17 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 18 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 19 | Suddenly then though her attention was taken by a red squirrel which darted from nowhere and , effortlessly it seemed , bounced over the grass and then , as if jerked up on a string , shot up a tree . |
| 20 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 21 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 22 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 23 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 24 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 25 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 26 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 27 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |
| 28 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 29 | Often he seemed desperate , violent , as if thrashing around inside himself for certainties that were n't there . |
| 30 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |