Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's become harder and harder to smile or laugh out there during an international match . |
| 2 | Some of the time one gets a good response from people willing to help and some interesting periodicals to read or browse through briefly before doing the coding and counting . |
| 3 | The only question is whether we do it now or lose out altogether by supposing we can do it later . |
| 4 | The glider should not be steepened up or levelled out immediately after leaving the ground . |
| 5 | There are frequent butter , grain , wine and beef mountains which are stored at great cost or sold off cheaply to other countries . |
| 6 | She would always be bad-tempered , liable to peck out an eye or lash out dangerously with those sharp claws . |
| 7 | This has its limitations as it only records what happens in one part of the room and there is no possibility of changing the angle or going in closer to one group . |
| 8 | Adhesive and grout are both sold in a range of pack sizes , sometimes labelled by weight ( in kilograms ) , sometimes by volume ( in litres ) ; always check the coverage given by the manufacturer when buying , so you do n't over-buy or run out half-way through the job . |
| 9 | On an icy surface the axe pick should be jabbed or swung in securely at each step . |
| 10 | Response-cost procedures involve the forfeiture of rewards or privileges currently available — such as going out to play or staying up late on Friday evening . |
| 11 | There was allays someone going on or coming off night duty , or reeling in late after a hectic night in the village pub . |
| 12 | But you 'll find them graced with looks which would complement a modern apartment or blend in self-confidently with a farmhouse kitchen . |
| 13 | Either that or go down there to this guy with black hair and a big beard and stop him womanising , gambling and drinking . |
| 14 | Those who came up from the Kinlochleven side may climb Am Bodach with the plan to turn east and do Na Gruagaichean , or carry on westwards for Stob Ban . |
| 15 | Did I look so obviously the sort to get into trouble that I could n't go about with circles under my eyes , or telephone a doctor , or throw up once in a while , without everyone immediately jumping to a single conclusion ? |
| 16 | It has been said by the courts that there are good reasons of public policy to enforce such time-limits : public programmes ought not to be suspended or held up indefinitely for fear of a challenge at some later date . |
| 17 | I try to look in the windows of the house but they 're either covered with those plastic roll-down external shutters you usually see in France or closed off inside by Venetian blinds . |
| 18 | The weight is the one that goes up there in the Y direction . |
| 19 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 20 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 21 | But it 's usually not them that make up just like that , it 's you ladies . |
| 22 | The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus . |
| 23 | ( And the chap is alive now , I expect , that lived down there in St Margaret 's Low Street ; and he come and stood like that there : he did n't know what to do . |
| 24 | She comments on the role of women in contemporary American society , using a variety of technical tricks to reveal the ‘ feminine ’ nature of objects that crop up regularly in day-to-day life . |
| 25 | It is a story that fits in well with our article on the Structure of Remembrance in this issue of Air Mail . |
| 26 | The ornamental tobacco , Nicotiana langsdorfii , usually grown as a tender annual , is a plant that fits in well with almost any situation or colour scheme . |
| 27 | He addressed his students as ‘ Gentlemen ’ , and drew them into his subject by the use of ‘ we ’ and ‘ you ’ ( a contrast with McFadyean 's ‘ one ’ that fits in well with the relationships between these two different teachers and their classes . ) |
| 28 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |
| 29 | She had smiled and raised rather amused brows at the stories that tumbled in then of Fergus 's progress . |
| 30 | Consisting of smaller cages that fly around independently within a big circle , it needed a pair . |