Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 3 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |
| 4 | Of course , the poor individual buyer is the one who loses out in this sort of operation . |
| 5 | This costs up to 2 p.c. of the sum converted with the possibility of a £3 handling charge if you opt for non-sterling or American dollar denominated cheques . |
| 6 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Chris Conway takes over as chief executive of DEC UK from chairman Geoff Shingles . |
| 8 | Charles Secrett takes over as executive director of Friends of the Earth in April . |
| 9 | The night creeps by in restless anticipation of the morning . |
| 10 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 11 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 12 | The scale of injustice , cruelty , and tyranny in the world in 1988 cries out for continuing protest of various forms including the democratic and peaceful marches and assemblies which in the 1960s helped to achieve greater civil rights in the USA and in many other nations , whilst the same phenomenon , sometimes more disorderly , hastened the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War . |
| 13 | The wall of jelly rises up against this army of destruction , whilst protecting its children ( the East End ) , enticing danger with its sickly sweet smell , inviting those who are seduced by the promise of temporal , earthly delights , to climb higher and higher . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , though she may not recognise the name it goes by from any catalogue of thou-shalt-nots , our Riva knows an abomination when she sees one . |
| 15 | Rather than scowl and growl at his durn bad luck , Pierce hooks up with another bunch of musical buckaroos and ambles out on to his porch to sing the blues … the real blues , that is . |
| 16 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 17 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 18 | Curiously he comes out as another kind of social engineer who tries to show people that granted their fundamental motives ( to obtain a range of pleasures and avoid a range of pains ) they will do best to act rightly ( in terms of the general happiness ) . |
| 19 | well perhaps , but women get very angry as well , but nothing seems to change , I mean what the heck do you do about it when some estimable er gentleman and it almost invariably must be a gentleman since their by far the huge proportion of er presiding judge 's and magistrate 's comes out with that kind of comment about er a woman 's victim reputation or behaviour as he sees it , I mean what is , what is the answer there ? |
| 20 | Dwayne comes back with another round of beers . |
| 21 | The increasing confidence that comes about through this kind of work allows them to do so . ’ |
| 22 | But he 's made national headlines local and every other headlines that comes about regarding this issue of the merger . |