Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Envisioning information ’ is what Professor Edward Tufte called it : specifying body type of an appropriate style and scale ; isolating and highlighting key phrases or quotations for larger , eye-catching treatment ; choosing a picture or series of pictures to aid comprehension , or say something more succinctly than words ever can ; choosing devices that draw the reader in , establish tone , reinforce the overall mood .
2 Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars .
3 write it down , people here will be giving away your points , a character called Dandeanee whisper it or write it down so that people ca n't hear , that 's right .
4 She wore a dark two-piece suit and a pert little hat with a feather that set it off well and I immediately was drawn to her .
5 But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is .
6 So we accept that Thank you very much and I 'm grateful to you , I 'm sorry I 've gone but it was that general question rightly raised by
7 Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ?
8 Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return .
9 He was able to find her and bring her back home where he pleaded with her to stay .
10 It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing
11 That 's the only one that ever I remembered but they were all , and they you know they , they used to graze their horses up there in that field up at the top , and this Billy that used to go round all the district and , and buy up all these old cast horses and bring them up there until he had a consignment gathered up .
12 ‘ We 'll put his comments away in the locker and bring them out again when we go down to their place , ’ said the Scotland international .
13 ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so .
14 What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again .
15 Well switch it off and bring it up again and see if it changes .
16 I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science .
17 It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him .
18 And send it up there and she said , and I mean all she , she buys Linda a tin of biscuits , Jane a tin of biscuits and Ellie .
19 Send photographs if available ; if not , take some and forward them as soon as possible .
20 History may point at Berlin and say it way here that the dream of communism started to curl up and die .
21 Learn it , try and say it as fast as you can , do it in groups , as a round …
22 Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings .
23 And it 's true , I 've seen my husband get water and wash it out well and er put powder and that because , and yet you should n't , you see they were n't safe really but they was that poor love they had to .
24 He urged all states " to back it and implement it as soon as possible " .
25 We organized at least a dozen ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ each day — these were mainly unsolicited , but we encouraged more — and spread them about so as to appear in a number of newspapers and magazines across the country .
26 Most importantly , though , we have increased our knowledge and spread it more widely and this can only be of benefit for the future .
27 He unpacked and put everything away immediately and strolled down to the canal .
28 If you dry up and put them there now cos it 's nearly .
29 The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well .
30 I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me .
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