Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 2 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 3 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 4 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 5 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 6 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 7 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 8 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 9 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 10 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 11 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 12 | Leaning through their window to sting the breasts of the sunning chorus girls with ammo from their pea-shooters in the morning : in the evening beer all round and trying to coax them up an alley . |