Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |
| 2 | I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs . |
| 3 | Even though no two people speak or write in just the same way , groups of people share sufficient language characteristics ( of accent , vocabulary and grammar ) to bind them together and to distinguish them from other groups . |
| 4 | The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades . |
| 5 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 6 | With one glance from the weeping girl to fitzAlan , Simon turned and strode back up the hill towards the castle . |
| 7 | He turned and went back up the rows of cars . |
| 8 | Shepherd turned and looked back up the slope . |
| 9 | She turned and looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 10 | Li Yuan laughed awkwardly then turned and looked back up the path . |
| 11 | And if you find that sprinkling on just a little bran in no way detracts from your bowl of breakfast cereal , then you will be tempted to continue to do so . |
| 12 | The upvc comes in planks , in sizes similar to timber , and can be cut , nailed and screwed in much the same way . |
| 13 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 14 | As for the police , they seem to think and behave in much the same way . |
| 15 | None of us has our own patch to ourselves , and we meet , fight and compete in nearly every country in the world . |
| 16 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |