Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waving to him , Mungo got on with sanding the unfinished side of the gate . |
| 2 | He wanted men to go on with living the good life . |
| 3 | The crack of his first shot succeeded only in raising a screeching flock of parrots from the trees behind him and the heard ran on unharmed . |
| 4 | But we almost got down to saying the other day that probably need to have an action plan or a structure for the pre-meeting as well . |
| 5 | Thus the propositional schema " x is a man " can be appropriately filled in by inserting a proper name , say " Jones " , in the place occupied by the variable , yielding a meaningful proposition whose truth-value happens to be true . |
| 6 | For several years their task was to open and close the trap doors which were essential for controlling the circulation of air , then at about the age of twelve they moved on to pushing the underground wagons . |
| 7 | He moved on from attacking the general principle of lists which had no apparent critical authority to citing individual examples of how books sometimes needed a mediator , most often a teacher , for their message to make sense . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've tackled it head on by letting the main character know that he is being written about . |
| 9 | Actually the scale distribution can be modified somewhat by shaping the pivoted element . |
| 10 | This indeed is the burden of Pound 's own poem , ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which argues that the puzzle of a particular poem by Bernard de Born — a historian 's puzzle about the reasons for certain historically recorded vents — is to be solved only by realizing the strategic implications of the location of Born 's own fortress of Hautefort . |
| 11 | I often thought I could win money on predicting results/scores , but a/ You 'd never win much without risking an awful lot and b/ I reckon the odds are fixed even more in the bookies favour on footy , than with GGs . |
| 12 | This can be clarified only by requesting a brief job description . |
| 13 | Yet the KSs must cooperate somehow in decoding an unknown utterance . ’ |
| 14 | The cat owners ' assessment of their health had returned to what they reported just before acquiring a feline friend , but dog owners continued to report improvements in their health and well being . |
| 15 | Thus a word processing package may be stored in ROM and accessed not by using a floppy disk but by giving the microcomputer a command , e.g. the BBC-B 's WORDWISE package is accessed by typing in W. and pressing the return key . |
| 16 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 17 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 18 | He categorizes the transformation of the inexpressible " visceral " need through four stages , ending up with a " compromised " need which requires extensive negotiation with the assistance of a librarian to come close to fulfilling the original visceral need . |
| 19 | Once the colour has solidified in the palette you can treat it as normal ‘ pan ’ watercolour : the colour can be lifted off by applying a wet brush . |
| 20 | Tobacco and insurance giant BAT Industries moved up after signing a joint venture agreement to take over a cigarette manufacturing business in the Ukraine . |
| 21 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 22 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 23 | Progress can be speeded up by employing a top trainer , but it 's still a lot easier to acquire better players . |
| 24 | In Kufra , for example , Zuwaya cadres drew back from imposing the full rigours of socialist regulation on members of opposed Zuwaya groups ; but in Ajdabiya — closer to Tripoli , more heterogeneous because swollen by immigration — Magharba cadres did not refrain from threatening Zuwaya landlords with expropriation ( although by 1979 they had not put their threats into action ) . |
| 25 | He bounced back by winning an overwhelming election victory . |
| 26 | At this stage the channel cables were not actually connected to the peripherals so that testing of the processor and channels could be carried out without affecting the existing systems . |
| 27 | Examination of the condition of the meshes in the sieve nest should always be carried out before undertaking a major sieving programme . |
| 28 | They also showed that the Kinnersley-Chitre transformations can be carried out by solving an appropriate homogeneous Hilbert problem . |
| 29 | The CLO test ( Delta-West Ltd , Bentley , Western Australia ) was carried out by placing the antral biopsy specimen into the gel pellet , and reviewing the slide for the positive red colour at 3 and 24 hours . |
| 30 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |