Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 2 | Yeah you got bring like crisps or biscuits or something |
| 3 | By comparison , companies in the 20-50 jobs bracket suffer from neglect , they say . |
| 4 | The positions Into which seasonal workers are placed tend to be relatively unskilled ones demanding little or no previous experience . |
| 5 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 6 | go for the really obvious physical properties first , and if you have a little checklist that you go through , bang bang bang for each one , |
| 7 | Ordinarily the referee and judge remain on opposite sides of the contestants but sometimes , for example when the latter are circling each other , both end up on the same side . |
| 8 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 9 | For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life . |
| 10 | And those voltage gated channels predominate predominate in excitable tissues . |
| 11 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 12 | To continue descend from the shoulder , on well-defined path with wall on left ; where wall bends right , keep right alongside it , and soon ignore a stile on left . |
| 13 | there was n't really There was n't really a great deal of er sort of stuff here but it was more about sort of language and shifts so I had to like shift through it and find the bits |
| 14 | I mean want to I have considered going back to er , training and cancel this |
| 15 | Not the cover on him there might have been , the sort of er chance clear chance that was given say to in the local derby match the other Saturday , and really made it count . |
| 16 | It was reclassified ‘ Type J/1 ’ ( reports that No. 11 was similarly treated appear to be unfounded ) . |
| 17 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |
| 18 | ‘ Those who have had their homes repossessed expect to be able to get a council house easily , ’ she added . |
| 19 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 20 | Erm do you have to be registered say with the council at that address ? |
| 21 | And figging concentrate on controls ! ’ |
| 22 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 23 | Resist hanging on to something that wants to go and consider change to be the best way of increasing your lot rather than depleting it . |
| 24 | He tried to come back too soon and made things worse but when he has played he 's looked bang in form . |
| 25 | Complaints about over-pricing tend to be met with a Gallic shrug , a disarming smile and the explanation : ‘ Mais c'est militaire ! ’ |
| 26 | Those health authorities which express most interest in refining formulas by varying the factors included tend to be those which have lost out with the current formula . |
| 27 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 28 | I know accountants say borrow to your top limit because of tax purposes , but they 're talking about people who 've |
| 29 | It helped bring to the premiership Pierre Mendès-France , a member of the influential Radical Party and a man of energy who commanded considerable personal loyalty . |
| 30 | Yet nowhere in the existing research or literature does this need appear to be acknowledged , let alone addressed . |