Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 3 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 5 | Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal . |
| 6 | Microsoft 's simple arithmetic adds up to 25,000 people who know something about NT . |
| 7 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 8 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 9 | Normally pear-sized , the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy . |
| 10 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 11 | However , the main concern must be that pressure from the right to reduce interest rates may become irresistible , or that the markets will in the interim test credibility to the point where the pressure builds up for higher rates which would be very difficult for the new government to accept . |
| 12 | This ties in with earlier studies which have found that two-day-old infants who are considered attractive are held closer and spoken to more than unattractive babies . |
| 13 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 14 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |
| 15 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 16 | The report favours the setting of attainment targets for children at 7 , 11 and 16 ( though with some publicly expressed reservations by Sir John Kingman himself about whether English can be ‘ mastered rung by rung ’ as in climbing a ladder ( Nash , 1988 ) ) , and spells out in some detail what these should be . |
| 17 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 18 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
| 19 | When she comes out in nice clothes I say get them for modelling ? |
| 20 | This comes out in this page we 'll have a look at it in more detail in a minute . |
| 21 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |
| 22 | Since personality arises out of social interaction its structure is not reducible to organic structure even though it remains dependent upon the whole psychoendocrine and neural system of a human being . |
| 23 | Child hits out at all visitors who come to the house . |
| 24 | He 's a class traitor , and if he ever comes round to this house he 's fucking dead . ’ |