Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | We all get in there and he goes sit down please did you see about half the people sat down before he |
| 3 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 4 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 5 | You know the tone of the voice could completely waylay you know lay lay completely your fear of being told off by the by the pleasant tone in your voice . |
| 6 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 7 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 8 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 9 | so it looks like you 've got future there , then you go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot back now you 've got something slightly different there here you had der der der der der you said okay , future , then you went back there and you found that it was a present tense in English , right , but you needed a future in French because the whole thing is future . |
| 10 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 11 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 12 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |
| 13 | and I had , got pick up two so I , I just had to give up , I phoned him up when I got here , apologise , he has n't been in touch with Michael yet , I do n't know why not , er , though why , er sorry |
| 14 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 15 | And if you want to wear make up then of course , make up goes over the top of your moisturizer . |
| 16 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 17 | If you can not comment say why not . |
| 18 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 19 | I should say that there are only seventy five seats available for each fringe meeting so if you want to go hurry on and get your tickets which will be issued at level three information desk on a first come , first served basis . |
| 20 | Shiftworkers lose sleep progressively while working the night or morning shifts , and may be employed in nursing , in controlling power stations or chemical plants , as well as in manufacturing industries . |
| 21 | Where would the case actually s where would it go to , I mean say when you 've got all the evidence ? |
| 22 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 23 | I have n't she pressed shift there we are . |
| 24 | The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time . |
| 25 | The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time . |
| 26 | Studies using those that do exist provide little support for the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 27 | It would be awful if she met Georg up there . |
| 28 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
| 29 | Yeah we do n't want say well you know I can save you tax . |
| 30 | Many of the incorrect responses given suggest totally algorithmic methods of conversion with no thought given to meaning . |