Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 2 | Clerk let down as firm goes into receivership |
| 3 | The raids also destroyed over 50,000 tonnes of grain , recently shipped in as relief supplies in response to impending famine [ see p. 37113 ] . |
| 4 | If you live in London , yours could be the seventh pair of kidneys that your glass of water has passed through and chemicals used in farming today seep into the ground to pollute and contaminate the water . |
| 5 | But it was a night when emotion alone could not carry them through and Souness watched in frustration as his young side 's Cup Winners ' Cup ambitions were ended with ruthless efficiency by the Russian champions . |
| 6 | Someone fell over and others collapsed on top . |
| 7 | The woman fell over and Bernice collapsed on top of the struggling body . |
| 8 | The reef looked higher a litter further on and Wood started to taxi forward . |
| 9 | Beginning in June , the old sterile growth is picked off and hoeing starts in earnest . |
| 10 | He did n't wear a white jacket like hospital doctors but a heavy greatcoat with the collar turned up and boots dampened with slush . |
| 11 | Now we are charging blindly down the same path , while families break up and children turn to hooliganism for want of a mother 's essentially female care . |
| 12 | The current dispute , he said , stepped up when people selected for lay-off included shop stewards and workers who spoke out . |
| 13 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 14 | Van der Pool described what he called the ‘ ageing ’ process in direct files , pointing out that performance degrades over time due to additions , even if the packing density does not change . |
| 15 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 16 | Finally , it is fair to point out that sculpture selling at auction is restricted by the problems of size and security . |
| 17 | In such cases inquiries should be carried out and approaches made with sympathy and discretion . |
| 18 | IN THE MEANTIME I CONTINUED TO SEARCH OUT AND SCRIBBLE NOTES ON BACKGROUND MATERIAL . |
| 19 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |
| 20 | The opposite view is expressed by Arthur Andersen , which would like to see the supervisory function of NEDs spelled out and encouragement given to experimentation with alternative forms of corporate governance , including two-tier boards . |
| 21 | Perhaps because it seems so obvious , the theorists did not bother to try to find out whether delinquents did in fact hold delinquent values , but concentrated more on explaining how these values came about . |
| 22 | Firemen in Hartlepool were only too happy to help out when pupils asked for assistance in putting up bird boxes in trees within the grounds of West Park School . |
| 23 | Reply : Well these ideas got around before people knew about space . |