Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wondering whether to take up my life or walk right out of it . ’ |
| 2 | Fold-up furniture can either be stacked neatly in one place , hung from a large hook on a wall or stashed away out of sight when it is n't in use . |
| 3 | Quote a Latin tag at him by mistake and he will examine his shoes or smile brazenly back at you . |
| 4 | whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ; |
| 5 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 6 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 7 | Do you have a formal qualification in electronics , or was it an interest that got slightly out of hand ? |
| 8 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 9 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 10 | His teasing request , ‘ Will you do this for me ? ’ , cues in a series of sexual variations ; games in earnest that grow increasingly out of hand . |
| 11 | Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record . |
| 12 | But it 's better than walking endlessly round on one 's own . |
| 13 | There were flat fish , silvered , aldermanic ; slim , darting fish ; palindromic fish that peered foully out of crevices ; minute poised fish of electric blue , fluttering red-and-black fish , slinking azure-and-green fish . |
| 14 | And nowhere was that place just out of reach |
| 15 | Even on a short section you can see many of the different birds which colonise nearby Ramsey , Skikholm and Skomer islands , and perhaps some of the gannets that breed further out on Grassholm . |
| 16 | She had ample power to stem the tide that ebbed enthusiastically out past the Needles , and would not be blown off course by the north-easterly wind . |
| 17 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 18 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 19 | There is no enjoyment in climbing Whernside in mist or rain but if overtaken by bad weather , a perfect lifeline to safety is provided by a five-mile ridge wall that leads infallibly back to the environs of Ingleton . |
| 20 | But it was me that skipped sideways on to the cobbles . |
| 21 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 22 | Although born mainly out of an attempt by the British government to gain control of the curriculum , the 1960s also saw the establishment of the Schools Council , a quango whose role was to advise the government on curriculum and examinations . |
| 23 | Yes , it 's true , you 're holding the final chapter in a long-running saga that began way back in 1985 . |
| 24 | It leaves precious few clues for anyone in search of lines that trace directly back to Gedge 's own life . |
| 25 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 27 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 28 | I fingered a few and then picked out a shiny foil bag that folded neatly down into a tiny pack . |
| 29 | It was the kind of day that worms deep down in the earth , drown and float to the surface . |
| 30 | On goes the road in a series of turns and twists and interesting situations , with intriguing glimpses of the coast and the wide sweep of Eddrachillis Bay , and then the vast seascape is fully revealed as the road comes alongside the lovely Clashnessie Bay , bounded and sheltered in the west by a peninsula that thrusts far out to sea and ends at the rocky Point of Stoer . |