Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine Moore heads down under and discovers a whole new world on a caving trip in South Wales |
| 2 | Then in a flash it dashes away as if fleeing in panic . |
| 3 | well he is so cheeky , and you can tell when he 's hungry cos he goes back for and stand by it again , sometimes he does and sometimes he does n't |
| 4 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 5 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 6 | The child steps back as if slapped , and a little gasp precipitates a trembling lower lip . |
| 7 | ‘ When we go in to write songs it 's not fun , ’ protests Paul , who promptly giggles hysterically as if to suggest that , actually , songwriting is about as much fun you can possibly have with your clothes on . |
| 8 | The younger man grunts and moves forward as if to stop him . |
| 9 | Down below , a green slate floor butts up to and contrasts with the smooth screed concrete on either side . |
| 10 | Stratton comes back in and catches Brown in the missionary position — and all this Wolvercote Tongue business is just a secondary blind . ’ |
| 11 | Marie comes back in and gives me a smile . |