Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] and the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 2 | The sun goes down , the racing goes on and the keenest fans keep watching . |
| 3 | That night the main gate of the dump was destroyed , the chain link fence around it torn down and the concrete posts lining the entrance to the dump smashed . |
| 4 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 5 | In recovery the grief reaction takes two years to work through and the various components of grief have to be addressed and processed . |
| 6 | Well I fucking done th see last Thursday I done our front garden and our back garden , I do n't know what fucking else I did n't do , and then I was storming out and the fucking dishes Willy |
| 7 | New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training . |
| 8 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 9 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 10 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 11 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 12 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |
| 13 | Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale . |
| 14 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 15 | The Scenes of Crime Officer walked in and the fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling flickered into life . |
| 16 | An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers . |
| 17 | Early on the morning of March 4th , the remnants of the 33rd were mopped up and the fragmented stones that had once been Douaumont village fell to the Germans . |
| 18 | Well , many thanks to my guests here discussing the Banbury School opt out and the general principles of opting out . |
| 19 | This time both Arabs got out and the back doors were unlocked . |
| 20 | For ZETA none of the published experimental results was wrong , the limits of accuracy of the experiment were clearly spelled out and the main results were soon confirmed by other groups — Aldermaston in Britain and Los Alamos in the USA . |
| 21 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 22 | As the afternoon wore on and the muted tones and friendly manner of my hosts remained unaltered , we discussed religion , morality and many of the people I had mentioned in the manuscript . |
| 23 | Inevitably , Macmillan 's grip slipped as his premiership wore on and the economic problems ( pay pause and EEC membership ) crowded in . |
| 24 | After Kylie left Neighbours , her singing career took off and the international demands on her time were even greater . |
| 25 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 26 | An attempted break-in at King Hope accountants in Romanby Road , Northallerton , was thwarted when the alarm went off and the would-be thieves fled . |
| 27 | Tents had gone up and the temporary occupants were busy making themselves at home . |
| 28 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 29 | ‘ At which point , I assume , the engine cut out and the notorious cross-currents of the sound hurled you all over the place until you were swept overboard . ’ |
| 30 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |