Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Created by Alex Raymond in the 1930's Flash eventually made his way onto the Commodore with a little help from Mastertronic Added Dimension , a budget house set up by Mastertronic . |
| 2 | The Committee 's 23rd report refers to the failure of the experiment of accepting the services of a young Dutchman , Mr Vincent van Gogh , and goes on to cite his spirit of self-sacrifice , his admirable qualities in aiding the sick and wounded , and his devotion , ‘ of which he gave many proofs ’ . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he goes on to justify his pursuit of the contradiction by claiming that the instruments provided by literary theory may be refined and transformed through their application to particular texts . |
| 4 | All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands . |
| 5 | I do not want to have to found a Royal College of Ships ' Surgeons to carry on practising my brand of general practice . |
| 6 | For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being ? |
| 7 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
| 8 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 9 | The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ? |
| 10 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 11 | The reason is simple : the unemployed and unemployable have flown in to try their luck in Japan . |
| 12 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 13 | Washington the role model is modest about his achievements , preferring perhaps to identify his role in the context of the greater need of setting an example for others to follow . |
| 14 | The difference was that , whereas I sought fulfilment with Jean-Claude , he sought only to renew his desire with me . |
| 15 | Moulds were used as antiseptics long before the discovery of antibiotics , but modern pharmacology has vastly extended their utility by analysing their active products , producing these in large amounts and making variations on their structures . |
| 16 | Eddery has since lost his title to Michael Roberts , the first South African jockey to win it , and Scudamore is finding it hard to close the growing daylight between himself and leader Richard Dunwoody . |
| 17 | He has since repositioned his Karabiner in a pocket and removed as many loops as possible from his equipment . |
| 18 | The brand new two-car Networker Class 456 Electric Multiple Unit recently on exhibition inside the Great Hall at York , has since relinquished its pride of place beside the Channel Tunnel section . |
| 19 | The UK branch has since changed its name to The Family , which today strenuously denied the allegations in Argentina and accused a ‘ small group of disgruntled ex-members ’ and anti-cult organisations of spreading ‘ outrageous ’ lies . |
| 20 | In a later subsection , we shall see how Taylor has since reformulated his approach to soccer hooliganism . |
| 21 | Cleese has since sold his share of Video Arts for a reputed £7 million , but he still makes films for them . |
| 22 | Since joining the University 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a New Blood Lecturer in 1984 , she has successfully divided her time between teaching and research , and establishing not only a national charity but two commercial companies as well . |
| 23 | Labour has successfully shed its image of a party of sandal-wearing social workers from the 1960s . |
| 24 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 25 | However , Mr. Collins ( if I have understood him correctly ) has expressly limited his challenge to Lautro 's failure to allow the making of representations before the service of the intervention notice . |
| 26 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 27 | Wanda from New Jersey phoned in to say her need for the taste of blood was a clinical necessity without which the withdrawal symptoms were ‘ just awful , ya wouldn ’ wan na go through it Jerry , ’ she told her host . |
| 28 | She has toiled endlessly to keep her body in the shape it was in 20 years ago with a punishing regime of exercise and diet . |
| 29 | Stork until recently has personally maintained his hold on the majority of the equity in order , he says , to help set the direction of the firm . |
| 30 | He may feel that his doctor has prematurely terminated his assessment of his problems , thereby increasing his sense of helplessness and discouraging further discussion with the doctor . |