Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 2 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 3 | General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc . |
| 4 | Unless there is drastic action based on the Woolf report , rather than the sort of band-aid solution that we have heard about today , I fear that there will be an increase in disturbances , especially if there is yet another unexpected surge in the prison population . |
| 5 | Among the ten African countries for which the appeal was made , there was a mix of hope , on the one hand , hope for progress in Eritrea or Liberia , Mozambique or Ethiopia and on the other hand , countries of despair Somalia that we 've heard about today , or southern Sudan and of course , Angola . |
| 6 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 7 | I have n't heard about any — and you usually do hear . |
| 8 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 9 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 10 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 11 | A great many human societies operate with " cognatic " systems of kinship , in which common ancestry is traced through both male and female links . |
| 12 | All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy . |
| 13 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 14 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 15 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 16 | Hours of wrangling over the protocol of such matters was squandered during both the preparation and the course of the pair 's ceaseless round of state visits to ever more obscure countries . |
| 17 | Equally important , close personal relationships based on mutual regard and trust developed between both tutors and Jacques . |
| 18 | It is only with such a system that uneconomic jobs or work types can be identified and stopped for either the fee basis to be renegotiated or the amount of work done reassessed . |
| 19 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 20 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 21 | Now one in seven of all university applicants in the UK select Bristol among their choices , creating a situation in which 26,000 applications are now received for just over 2,000 places . |
| 22 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 23 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |
| 24 | Four thousand goose-grazing hours an acre are not to be bandied about lightly as a conversation stopper . |
| 25 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 26 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 27 | But three minutes into the second half Roberts , who had a first-half header disallowed for off-side , was on the mark to convert a clever build up involving Bull and Paul Birch . |
| 28 | Holland had a perfectly good goal disallowed for off-side when Rijkaard clearly was n't . |
| 29 | Murray had a shot stopped on the line and substitute Gary Peebles , one of four Scots in Ronnie McFall 's Tartan Army rattled the bar before Strain applied that 72nd minute coup de grace and Fraser had a goal disallowed for offside . |
| 30 | Slaven put the ball in the net in the dying minutes but the goal was disallowed for offside . |