Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 2 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 3 | Today , their legacy lives on as the British Pteridological Society ( BPS ) , which this year celebrates its centenary . |
| 4 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 5 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 6 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 7 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 8 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 9 | A third approach which grows out of the Latin American situation is the ‘ Theology of Liberation ’ . |
| 10 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 11 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 12 | But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . |
| 13 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
| 14 | The most common type of star in the Galaxy turns out to the humble red dwarf . |
| 15 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 16 | I suppose we should really begin at the word strangeness because the word strangeness goes back to the late Fifties , early Sixties , when some people discovered particles more massive than neutrons and protons and these particles were discovered in the erm cosmic radiation , and they were also produced by accelerators in laboratories . |
| 17 | The BLR&DD 's involvement with user education goes back to the early 1970s when it was called the Office for Scientific and Technical Information ( OSTI ) but it was the BLR&DD 's establishment of the Review Committee of Education for Information Use in 1974 that marked its presence in the field . |
| 18 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 19 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 20 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 21 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 22 | ’ He looked from the beckoning figures over to the smooth blank walls and tapped the handle of his umbrella against his chin . |
| 23 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 24 | Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person ? |
| 25 | Cosmos has been losing market share and falls out of the top four companies in 1986 as British Air Tours takes over ( Table 11.3 ) . |
| 26 | The screen changes back to the original main design screen , but this time with the new , empty palette displayed in the box at the right side of the screen . |
| 27 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 28 | A further single-flight stair , in this instance incorporating winding treads at its base , discharges on to the large second-floor landing , off which radiate all four bedrooms ( Fig 56 ) . |
| 29 | So , in order to lure the winners of the PPA awards along to the chosen banqueting room , the association has to tip the wink to likely winners . |
| 30 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |