Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt they had hit the targets by going on about tax and emphasising the warning that votes for the Lib Dems would only help Labour . |
| 2 | So I had a slice of pie and then he put the kettle on for coffee and went to the loo . |
| 3 | It can be walked on for access if required . |
| 4 | Speed came on for White and did n't seem to have many problems although that 's prob- ably because he did n't touch the ball much . |
| 5 | Dust is drawn in through vents and collected in filters . |
| 6 | It seems that the Volunteer Cavalry , and Cavalry exist to give tone to what would otherwise be a mere vulgar brawl , had already dispersed the rioters , after they had rioted along through Garscube and burned the Parish Records in Old Kilpatrick . |
| 7 | They woke very early next day , sent down for coffee and sat talking in their room . |
| 8 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 9 | Pull yarn down between beds and hold it down . |
| 10 | Ratner , 42 , stepped down as chairman but stayed on as chief executive . |
| 11 | Sometimes tourists wandered in off Longacre and looked about the hall of this famous British institution before he ushered them out . |
| 12 | 2.50 : Boys come in for orange and cornflake cakes ( made by boys in next class ) . |
| 13 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 14 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 15 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 16 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 17 | Fallen people , slipping down through grids and drains until there is nowhere left to fall . |
| 18 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 19 | Now aged 15 and a hip hop devotee , in between school and modelling for the likes of Rifat Ozbek she has already launched her dancing career . |
| 20 | He 'd come in after work and found two cans of baked beans in the cupboard . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's one of the few naturally fit players who can come straight back in after injury and look as though he 's never been out . |
| 22 | To prevent the valve of an aerosol can becoming clogged , turn it upside down after use and press the nozzle for a couple of seconds , then give it a wipe with a cloth dipped in white spirit . |
| 23 | These can be used instead of the time- consuming pulling down of menus but do n't try to learn them — you will soon pickup the ones that you need . |
| 24 | While deregulation refers to the breaking down of barriers that inhibit competition , impede efficiency , and restrict consumer choice , governments nonetheless acknowledge that some policy goals are too important to be left to heavily market orientated deregulatory processes . |
| 25 | Thus Goody & Watt ( 1963 ) and Goody ( 1977 ) suggest that analytic thinking followed the acquisition of written language ‘ since it was the setting down of speech that enabled man clearly to separate words , to manipulate their order and to develop syllogistic forms of reasoning ’ ( Goody , 1977 : 11 ) . |
| 26 | It was soon realized that more than one reservoir was required in order to avoid the slowing down of timekeeping that occurs with the falling pressure-head in a single vessel . |
| 27 | Iser expands on Ingarden 's description of the reading process as the filling in of gaps but criticizes Ingarden 's belief that there are true and false realizations of a text ( 1978:178 ) . |
| 28 | She did n't respond in like manner but said , ‘ She 's got a month . ’ |
| 29 | A bearer slipped in behind Owen and stood up a gun in the corner behind Garvin 's desk . |
| 30 | I shuffled along behind Werewolf and whispered to him , ‘ Head for the Wood to the right and wait for me somewhere near that big conifer . ’ |