Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We recognise all the work that goes in to promoting a greener Middlesbrough and what we are doing here will hopefully strengthen that community involvement . ’ |
| 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 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tobacco and insurance giant BAT Industries moved up after signing a joint venture agreement to take over a cigarette manufacturing business in the Ukraine . |
| 12 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 13 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 14 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 15 | Progress can be speeded up by employing a top trainer , but it 's still a lot easier to acquire better players . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | He bounced back by winning an overwhelming election victory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Examination of the condition of the meshes in the sieve nest should always be carried out before undertaking a major sieving programme . |
| 20 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 21 | They also showed that the Kinnersley-Chitre transformations can be carried out by solving an appropriate homogeneous Hilbert problem . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | England , with Andrew Hine and James Lucas playing well in midfield , never looked back after taking a 3-1 lead in the first chukka . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now , they have come round to adopting the Indian selection policy with the ever-improving off-spin of Hick now regarded as part of their frontline attack . |
| 26 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 27 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 28 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 29 | ‘ So I 'm terribly sorry , but I wo n't be able to c — ’ I break off on hearing a low moan then an uninterrupted wailing noise , followed by the gnashing of elderly dentures , the grinding of elderly cheek muscles , the solid thud of arthritic knees hitting tufted twistpile , some steady gasping and choking noises , then worst of all , the terrible silence of a condemned committee member : |
| 30 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |