Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 2 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 3 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 4 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 5 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 6 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 7 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 8 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 9 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 10 | An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc . |
| 11 | A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians . |
| 12 | The scenario for the training exercise ; a fire has broken out under a container carrying spent nuclear fuel by rail from Oldbury power station to Sellafield for reprocessing . |
| 13 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 14 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 15 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 16 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 17 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 18 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 19 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 20 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 21 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 22 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 23 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 24 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 25 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 26 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 27 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 29 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 30 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |