Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind ! |
| 2 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 3 | The opposition ( Issaq-dominated ) Somali National Movement ( SNM ) would be able to take part in the elections , he said , if " it has a programme and does not solely seek to satisfy tribal interests " . |
| 4 | He placed it around his neck and sat down again covering his eyes with his hand . |
| 5 | Then common sense and anger got the better of her and she firmed her mouth and concentrated on gently trying to wriggle the key free . |
| 6 | Outcrossing promotes diversity suited to high biotic uncertainty and does not invariably lead to specialization of species but , on the contrary , may lead to greater generalization of a species and therefore similarity between species of a tree ‘ guild ’ . |
| 7 | The speculum , which is warmed before use , is smaller than an erect penis and does not normally produce any pain or discomfort when used . |
| 8 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE . |
| 9 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE . |
| 10 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE . |
| 11 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE . |
| 12 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE . |
| 13 | The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SCRE or the organisation(s) which commissioned the research . |
| 14 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 15 | They gave up their attempts to cross the Swamp and set out instead to get round it . |
| 16 | When are you going to give up the life of a gypsy and settle down here to become eccentric and safe ? ’ |
| 17 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 18 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 19 | If you drive a car and do not already use unleaded petrol , the guidelines below will indicate how to adjust and make the change towards cheaper motoring and a cleaner and healthier environment . |
| 20 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper . |
| 22 | But , like so many of his stablemates , he struggled to find his form in the early part of this term and has only recently returned to his best . |
| 23 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 24 | ‘ I went to three different schools and did n't really enjoy any of them . |
| 25 | Perhaps she should steal Contralto and gallop off alone to find the edge of Haling Heart . |
| 26 | The new scheme , upheld by the Divisional Court in the later case , was made under the same statute and did not appreciably hold a different balance between ratepayers and transport users . |
| 27 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 28 | The drawbacks of the LB procedure are that it is slow , not easily applied to large areas and does n't always produce a film with the desired structure . |
| 29 | ‘ Get out of our village and do n't ever come back . ’ |
| 30 | Copyright comes into force immediately on completion or publication of the work and does not normally have to be recorded or registered . |