Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 2 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 3 | In fact , a shower of dust , cobwebs , bat droppings and laths had indeed begun to splatter down upon the musicians and their small audience . |
| 4 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 5 | Convenors of local committees are still encouraged to go along to the police and to discuss their plans for an event with them . |
| 6 | Times to go down to the pits and the sun came out . |
| 7 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 8 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 9 | That is an extraordinary contrast with the uncritical support for monetary union expressed by his right hon. and hon. Friends , who want to leap in with no conditions and to throw away the conditions that we have negotiated . |
| 10 | In freedom , he managed to hide away in the wilds and educate himself . |
| 11 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 12 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |
| 14 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 15 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 16 | Hornby loco we had those things you used to pull out of the cabs and they could go |
| 17 | Here the blaze had started , killing Dame Frances whilst the rest of the nuns , given some warning , had managed to jump out of the windows or find their way down the outside stairs . |
| 18 | The girls used to come out with the barrows and the people with the shops used to complain . |
| 19 | During the final campaign , voters hardly need such contrived devices as PEBs to find out about the issues and personalities in party debate ‘ but during the mid-term there is so much concentration on government actions and personalities that PPBs play a much more significant role in publicizing opposition policies and personalities . |
| 20 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 21 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |
| 22 | Do the same at intervals throughout the roof on occasional joists , rafters , purlins and trusses — and you must get down on your knees to reach right to the eaves and wall-plates . |
| 23 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 24 | It sounds posey perhaps , but Althusser says something along the lines of when there are breaks that 's when you have a chance to change things , a chance to nip in through the cracks and grab the moment . |
| 25 | I ask hon. Members to listen carefully to the questions and answers because they will find them enlightening . |
| 26 | Nurse Rose had to exercise all her powers of concentration to sort out from the mumblings and digressions exactly what Mrs. Fanshawe wanted to say . |
| 27 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 28 | In this type of situation , once a study is underway and the initial reservations are overcome , staff tend to talk freely to the analysts and there is a high level of client participation in all stages of the exercise . |
| 29 | For many , investment business activity carries with it the very real threat of punitive action , whether arising from failure to comply properly with the regulations or , worse still , from committing the criminal offence of conducting investment business without being authorised at all . |
| 30 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |