Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 2 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 3 | Quartz overgrowth cements can be clearly recognized using a petrological microscope if clay- or hematite-rich coatings ( commonly inaccurately termed ‘ dust ’ rims ) are trapped between overgrowth cement and grain ( Fig. 5.26a , b ) . |
| 4 | So La Laura now thinks got a sore stomach because she 's hungry . |
| 5 | THE Queen 's speech to the nation at the end of her ‘ annus horribilis ’ failed to attract a larger audience than normal yesterday . |
| 6 | The title is intended to indicate a wider scope than ‘ Community legislation ’ in this narrow sense , extending to all categories of Community legal texts . |
| 7 | SIR — Glynn Jones 's article ( April 10 ) about the Japanese rediscovering Vertical Take-off and Landing transports contains a major error while making a valid point . |
| 8 | For example , in the case of starting up a machine at a control panel the operator will be given the instructions and asked to provide a verbal commentary as he actuates the various controls and checks the various indications , this is a ‘ talk through ’ . |
| 9 | Neil Kinnock will be in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales where local Labour supporters expect to arrange a small party before he heads for London . |
| 10 | ‘ Where Parliament has designated a public officer as decision-maker for a particular class of decisions the High Court , acting as a reviewing court under Order 53 , is not a court of appeal . |
| 11 | He has completed a second marathon as editor-in-chief of a companion volume , the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , out this week , which is a guide to designing and a garden and growing flowering plants , fruit , and veg . |
| 12 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 13 | It is difficult to actually say that it has formed a satisfactory basis because in in effect , the amount of land that has come forward in the city has been below the the figure that was allocated in the original structure plan . |
| 14 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 15 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 16 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 17 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 18 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 19 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 20 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 21 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
| 22 | For 10 years , the star has enjoyed a high profile as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses and as Pa Larkin in The Darling Buds of May . |
| 23 | Edward 's war propaganda was designed to reach a wider audience than the commons in parliament . |
| 24 | ‘ The state oil company , PDVSA , has done a tremendous job since nationalisation and is now ranked among the largest and best in the world , ’ he says . |
| 25 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 26 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 27 | ‘ The kid has made a dramatic improvement though , with a little help from Martin Hodge . |
| 28 | Hanning has produced a smoother result than repeated medians alone . |
| 29 | The Department of Employment research programme has produced a rosier picture than local studies or the experience of local homeworking campaigns . |
| 30 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |