Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 2 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 3 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 4 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 5 | There is a masterpiece in most churches , or placed casually in a small chapel in a field . |
| 6 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 7 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 8 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 9 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 10 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 11 | Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner . |
| 12 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 13 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 14 | or stand together in a rising mist |
| 15 | For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ? |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 17 | I have never seen anyone create a gap in the crowd for one of the nice people , who are stagediving either to have fun or get out of a painful suffocating position in front . |
| 18 | However , Trotsky also had to affirm that although the Russian proletariat in power could win the support of the peasantry by appropriate measures , it would be unable to maintain itself in power or pass over to a socialist regime in Russia ‘ without the direct state support of the European proletariat ’ . |
| 19 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |
| 20 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 21 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 22 | Every month almost two thirds of the British population participate in some kind of sales promotion , either by trading in a money-off coupon , entering a competition or sending away for a free gift . |
| 23 | Riders have to learn to cope with the contrasts of the Alpine stages , dropping like a stone or plodding upwards like an old soldier . |
| 24 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 25 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 26 | Before settling an agreement or starting out on a particular course of conduct , a number of fundamental factors have to be taken into consideration . |
| 27 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 28 | In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended . |
| 29 | Biddy arrived on her Honda every evening there was a lesson whether it was snowing , raining stair-rods or shining frostily under a full moon . |
| 30 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |