Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 2 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 3 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 4 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 5 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 6 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 7 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 8 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 9 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 10 | Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty . |
| 11 | The single person 's allowance goes up by a hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 12 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
| 13 | The family gets by on a hundred and sixty pounds a week from social security and family allowance payments . |
| 14 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 15 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 16 | The first certain name , however , goes back to the 1920s or even earlier — Miss Florrie Forsythe , of Seagoe . |
| 17 | It goes back to the fifties when the local authority , in this case the Worthing Rural District Council would not approve the plan for a small development A Twenty Seven in near the roundabout at Manor . |
| 18 | This follows on from the 1970s and the health conscious 80s when increasing numbers of people were becoming more responsible towards themselves and their lifestyle . |
| 19 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 20 | The first known use of carburisation and quenching of iron dates back to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC in Cyprus and Palestine . |
| 21 | The three bedroom property dates back to the 1860s and is situated in Allerton Road right in the heart of Woolton Village . |
| 22 | Some of the property dates back to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and have old world gardens . |
| 23 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |
| 24 | The ingratitude comes out into the open and sets as hard as marble . |