Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 32 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 33 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 34 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 35 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 36 | Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet . |
| 37 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 38 | Fit your car with a catalytic converter , if possible , or trade it in for a new model — cars made after 1993 must have them . |
| 39 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 40 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 41 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 42 | Be prepared for a breakdown in communication and for certain individuals to misbehave or let you down around the 12th and the 26th . |
| 43 | No-one said or did anything out of the ordinary , but still guilt made her jump when the nurse came in with lunch . |
| 44 | Once the core units are engaged you can pile in alongside them or form them up beside the core units to block enemy attacks from the sides . |
| 45 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 46 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 47 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 48 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 49 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 50 | On the purl side , this creates a distortion in the stitches , either pulling them sideways or raising them up above the surface of the fabric . |
| 51 | Like several other drivers , they spun almost in unison , but it was the Nissan that made it back to the pits first . |
| 52 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 53 | But although she moans , it was Michelle Pfeiffer 's looks that led her out of a dead-end job as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket in El Toro , California . |
| 54 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 55 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 56 | So that covers you up till the Monday |
| 57 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 58 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 59 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 60 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |