Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 3 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 4 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 5 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 6 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 7 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 8 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 9 | You want to go out for a wee wee puss ? |
| 10 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 11 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 12 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 13 | In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers . |
| 14 | As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union . |
| 15 | veteran cars , who wants to , who wants to drive around in an old Ford Poplar of of twenty , twenty five , thirty years ago ? |
| 16 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 17 | Water pumped out of building excavations or road works , for example , may be permitted to flow directly into a neighbouring watercourse without a requirement that any solids settle out in the lagoons which are the typical method of purifying similar discharges more permanent in character . |
| 18 | just wants to go there as an equal |
| 19 | Well who wants to go out with a doddery old bugger like me anyway ! |
| 20 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 21 | Androgyny was expect to go along with a broad , flexible and effective repertoire of behaviours , and well-adjusted emotions . |
| 22 | Sadly , since 1979 , and in spite of national and international protest , much of the land we loved has vanished forever beneath an ever-increasing canopy of foreign conifers . |
| 23 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 24 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 25 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 26 | If a once beautiful and honest young girl has become dishevelled and has dropped out of a promising educational course and is in perpetual trouble with the Police , then it is almost superfluous to ask questions on drug use or to look for physical signs of drug addiction , even though clinical accuracy demands this . |
| 27 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 28 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 29 | ‘ Once Annie has come up with a tartan design it can be used on many products such as bags and logos , not just carpets and furnishings . |
| 30 | So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) . |