Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 2 | Hanging on to all the jobs |
| 3 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 4 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 5 | I am not going to go in to all the details , but I give you one example . |
| 6 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 7 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 8 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 9 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 10 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |
| 11 | But in banging on to such an extent about high taxation , and promising to reduce income tax still further , they have probably missed the public mood . |
| 12 | " I 've asked Sir Geoffrey Gillington to come along in half an hour . " |
| 13 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 14 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 15 | He said but she 'd be considered along with all the others but she ai n't gon na get a job with terminal full time when her contract runs out on May the eighteenth if she does n't get her finger out and get dr driving test passed and buy herself a car . |
| 16 | But when its current owners moved in in 1970 the kitchen was still very much the same . |
| 17 | In 1861 the statistician and economist Cournot observed that ‘ the belief in philosophic truth has cooled off to such an extent that neither the public nor the academies any longer like to receive or to welcome works of this kind , except as products of pure scholarship or historical curiosity . ’ |
| 18 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 19 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 20 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did n't you call the police instead of getting mixed up in such an event ? ’ one of the governors asked . |
| 22 | Proximal and distal ends may include up to half the length of the shaft without any separate count being made for the shaft . |
| 23 | Cultural marginality , which encompasses the culture of poverty concept ( Lewis 1966 ) , has been largely discredited because of the implication that traits such as apathy and passivity , which are the hallmarks of the culture of poverty , are very strongly imbedded in those who grow up in such a culture and therefore prevent them responding positively if opportunities arise . |
| 24 | Bush , at 68 , had a hard job keeping up with such a pace . |
| 25 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 26 | Sometimes , too , it is possible to make the mistake of thinking that she is expecting us to come up with all the answers when , often , all she wants is the opportunity to state the problem to someone who understands and will not criticise her . |
| 27 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 28 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 29 | In March they returned to England , and he attempted to catch up with all the work and correspondence he had left behind . |
| 30 | as the race for the world championship hots up its time now to catch up with all the rest of the sports news … |