Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 2 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 3 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing 's lost , ’ he says and bang goes another drawing for 2d. or nothing , while he dreams off to some café to borrow some paper . |
| 5 | FORMER British middleweight champion Herol Graham moves up to super middleweight to fight Midlands area champion Carlos Christie in Manchester on January 25 . |
| 6 | The colliding rhythms and whiplash emotion of ‘ The Thin Line ’ follow , before ‘ Jet City Woman ’ steps up from dubious vinyl to live excellence . |
| 7 | The colliding rhythms and whiplash emotion of ‘ The Thin Line ’ follow , before ‘ Jet City Woman ’ steps up from dubious vinyl to live excellence . |
| 8 | At ridges in the mid-oceans molten rock rises from the mantle below the crust and spreads out on either side to form new ocean floor . |
| 9 | He 's got his five fielders there , four on the leg side at the moment , so saved , er long leg as well , bowls this one and that again he thrust forward that front pad and DaSilva , and Stewart comes in from mid wicket to field it . |
| 10 | A wipe , by the way , is like on of those weird effects the directors of such programs as Top of the Pops are so keen on — where the picture changes via a tumbling square or comes in from one side to replace the picture you have onscreen already . |
| 11 | Currently most of the impetus for developing efficiency and effectiveness measures arises out of recent legislation to expand the traditional role of the auditor ( see chapter 6 ) . |