Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way at least , the ultimate prize should remain within reach whatever happens inside the polling booths -always provided , of course , that he has not ‘ peaked ’ too soon . |
| 2 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 3 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 4 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a capacity which has obviously helped us survive as a species over thousands of years , and medical staff see evidence of it even today time after time , ’ said intensive care specialist Sally Ford . |
| 6 | He has only seen one defeat at the ground . |
| 7 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 8 | Excellent as the tutor/student relationship may be , it has failed if the teacher , in satisfying your thirst for knowledge , has not taught you to depend on yourself . |
| 9 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 10 | The bedroom felt cold and as Fred sank to the bed with her still in his arms Carrie closed her eyes and tried not to let herself focus on the small round damp patch on the ceiling above the foot of the bed . |
| 11 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 12 | Miller has already discovered it clinging like a woodpecker to the skin of the tree . |
| 13 | He had his leg whooped off did you know about that ? |
| 14 | Ndembu explain that the mukula here represents the wish of the tribal elders that the circumcision wounds should heal quickly and cleanly for , as they observe , the mukula gum coagulates rapidly to form what looks like a scab . |
| 15 | He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway . |
| 16 | Cheltenham College has still to decide what to do about Heenan 's memorial , but because he was never tried , technically he died an innocent man . |
| 17 | He has definitively discovered what happens to socks and underwear once the wearers have been persuaded to shed them , how co-habiting men and women care for their most intimate garments , and how couples come to joint terms with the washing machine — or fail to . |
| 18 | It has repeatedly urged them to enter into a close political and military alliance , and has countered their steadfast rejection of its overtures by voicing territorial claims . |
| 19 | It has also led me to think along the lines of who needs to work habitation sites when finds like this are popping up in random places ? |
| 20 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed being forced to take part in a ceremony , and slumped on the floor , with her mother holding a syringe and a key . |
| 21 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed , being forced to take part in a ceremony . |
| 22 | Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that . |
| 23 | The CNAA has also found itself drawn into the dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and its local authority , Kirklees Metropolitan Council , where , in 1980 , it felt itself obliged to write to both parties : to the council stressing the need to provide more funds and to the polytechnic strongly advising it temporarily to drop its intention of introducing new courses . |
| 24 | She has also sketched herself slumped on the floor , with her mother brandishing a syringe and a key . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 26 | At first the police treated his death as suspicious , but a post mortem has now revealed he died from hypothermia . |
| 27 | So one of the things about qualifying er the surgery when you walk into them and say well look you know about the hundred pound per full page |
| 28 | It 's hardly my fault , is it , if Luke has n't noticed you exist as a woman ? ’ |
| 29 | However , she has n't let it get to her : ‘ I do n't think I have suffered from the male domination thing as much as other women might because I 'm a belligerent , stubborn , loud-mouthed bastard , basically ! ’ |
| 30 | But it has n't got anything going for it , basically , whatsoever |