Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 2 | I went an sat down wid an reasoned wid Mr Ayatollah . |
| 3 | To ensure the rights laid down in or following from this treaty , they shall especially guarantee freedom of contract , freedom to exercise a trade , freedom of establishment and occupation , and freedom of movement of Germans in the entire currency area , freedom to form associations to safeguard and enhance working and economic conditions and … ownership of land and means of production by private investors … |
| 4 | Large numbers of us in this country are getting fed up of being talked down to and dictated to by the existing planning , architectural and development establishment . |
| 5 | erm erm concentration put on of where pumping into us , there came back a further report on how one would win that and as I remember it , the professional advise was we should have twenty but Charles and his I nearly said men but progress erm . |
| 6 | Then she was flying off as if caught by the wind . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a few teachers who you can get on with and talk to . |
| 8 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 9 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 10 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 11 | 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 " |
| 12 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 13 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
| 14 | Down below , a green slate floor butts up to and contrasts with the smooth screed concrete on either side . |
| 15 | Early experiences shape the way we face up to and deal with problems and crises ; the way we cope with disappointments ; the way we form relationships ; the way we construct personal aims and objectives ; the way we develop strategies for fulfilling needs and desires ; and the way we build a system of social and moral values and attitudes . |
| 16 | We do not need a fund to get there but rather we need to face up to and deal with the systematic discrimination that women face . ’ |
| 17 | And er she says not only that she says er David is er saying to er Michelle come on and play with me and er come on in and play with me and , when Michelle will go in , he pushes Ashley out of the road and says well you 're not getting into my house . |
| 18 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 19 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Crump , I presume , ’ said Hope , gallantly slicing through the knot , and then he stood back as if struck by a startling thought . |
| 21 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | It is especially easy to see out of and manoeuvre in tight spots , which is why , apart fro anything else , you see so many of them being driven so aggressively in heavy traffic . |
| 24 | ‘ It shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that — ( a ) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee , being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties , or a combination of those and any toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties , of that nuclear matter ; and ( b ) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the licensee 's responsibility — ( i ) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter ; or ( ii ) from any waste discharged ( in whatever form ) on or from the site , cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee . ’ |
| 25 | Section 2(2) of that Act provides that regulations may be made ‘ for the purpose of implementing any Community obligation of the United Kingdom or for the purpose of dealing with matters arising out of or related to any such obligation . ’ |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 27 | During the first three years of life the young child will venture out from and return to the secure base of a parent 's presence when conducting expeditions into unfamiliar territory . |
| 28 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 29 | Employment rights are set out in and affected by Acts of Parliament , Codes of Practice and by the decisions taken in individual cases by Courts and Industrial Tribunals . |
| 30 | Well I 've got the window back in and working with the hand thing but I need drills to drill holes for the fittings and it really |