Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 2 | What happens when Mrs B goes on holiday or goes off sick ? |
| 3 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 4 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 5 | BY NOT PUTTING YOUR BINS OR SACKS OUT ON THE STREET EARLIER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE COLLECTION DAY |
| 6 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 7 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 8 | The Church records noted proudly , ‘ That Memorial Organ on the very day of its dedication is free — it has no debt on it — it belongs to no human being — but like the sanctuary is dedicated to Almighty God & belongs only to Him . ’ |
| 9 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 10 | Thus , an anaphoric element such as a pronoun is treated as a word which substitutes for , or refers back to , another word or words . |
| 11 | When flushed either runs uphill or flies downhill , calling vociferously . |
| 12 | Action : Keyword IS-TESTED-BY , IS-DESCRIBED-BY , REQUIRES-SOURCE-OF , REQUIRES-BINARY-OF , CONTAINS-SOURCE-OF or CONTAINS-BINARY-OF not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 13 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 14 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 15 | When lava like this comes to rest or slows down , the ‘ skin ’ piles up against itself , buckling up into a closely-spaced series of pleats . |
| 16 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 17 | Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink . |
| 18 | If the guitar does not play , or buzzes severely along the first few frets from the nut , slacken the rod slightly to remove the crown . |
| 19 | These are items which are sold at little or no profit ( they may include special cut-price reductions , or offers like ‘ buy two , get one free ’ … |
| 20 | Few can deliver high notes of such ringing clarity or trills so impeccably controlled , and she has a chest register many contraltos would envy . |
| 21 | Level of activity at the table : restless or calm , demands to get down or sits quietly , happy or not happy . |
| 22 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 23 | Does lazy , for example , mean the person arrives late every day , or takes an excessive lunch break , or never volunteers for anything , or lies about with his eyes closed half the time ? |
| 24 | So , the result is that , that she just sits there or lies there |
| 25 | But if Russia falls into anarchy or lurches back into despotism the price that we pay could be frightening . ’ |
| 26 | Power output stays the same or drops slightly . |
| 27 | But what if an employee refuses help , or drops out of a recovery programme ? |
| 28 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 29 | A playwright will often do his best to supply this non-lexical information by telling the reader that the character shrugs , winks , or looks heavenwards as this or that phrase is uttered . |
| 30 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |