Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 2 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 3 | THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head . |
| 4 | In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment . |
| 5 | I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’ |
| 6 | I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way . |
| 7 | The sheep wisely leave it alone and most bugs do , too , for it contains two chemicals which , when mixed together in a creature 's stomach , make cyanide . |
| 8 | Sandy Island , which you can just see on the horizon from the Beach Restaurant , looks just like a cartoonist 's typical desert island sketch . |
| 9 | The problem may be solved just by a solicitor 's letter , though in many cases court action is needed . |
| 10 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 11 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 12 | In the commonplace crush of damp and steaming humanity returning home after a day 's work in the city , worries over Nadirpur and Clarion Call seemed grossly exaggerated . |
| 13 | In 1987 Mr Keyse was disabled in a road accident while returning home from a day 's work at Llanfair Caereinion station . |
| 14 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |
| 15 | Tolby drew up outside a newsagent 's . |
| 16 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 17 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 18 | He 'd think nothing of checking up on a fellow 's credentials . |
| 19 | They usually build up to a God 's eye view of the causal processes slowly , starting from a simple relationship , imagining how it might be more complex , testing to see if that is in fact the case , and so on . |
| 20 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 21 | ENERGY ORCHARD , Belfast purveyors of Celtic rock , head out on a Murphy 's Irish Stout sponsored tour visiting . |
| 22 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 23 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 24 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 25 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 26 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 27 | A female was believed to come back after a night 's hunt and give her milk to whichever baby grabbed her teat first . |
| 28 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |
| 29 | Good heavens , man , do I pay you to stand about like a tailor 's dummy ? |
| 30 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |