Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 2 | Erm and people would n't know what to do , whether to leave the child at the bottom of the stairs and take the the shopping in or to leave the shopping and have er you know , er think it might go missing or something by the time they take the child and the buggy . |
| 3 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 4 | Within six months after termination , the employee would not ‘ engage in or undertake the trade or business of an employment agency ’ in Greater London , within a 1km radius of his or her old branch . |
| 5 | This left the restriction against engaging in or undertaking the trade or business of an employment agency within the kilometre circle , for six months . |
| 6 | But if the alien premises are as subtle as they are pervasive , they can filter in and overpower the mind before it is even aware of their presence , let alone their danger . |
| 7 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |
| 8 | That people delight in and desire the excitement and sensual pleasure found in sexual contact , food , bathing and money is an essential and straightforward assumption made in the fabliaux . |
| 9 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 10 | His wife came in and banged the door and he was furious because it made the china rattle ; he said she just did n't understand . ’ |
| 11 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 12 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 13 | And I 've got ta go in and do the budget and get the budget today . |
| 14 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 15 | But Nicola waded in and grabbed the baby as the fake social worker tried to pull him away . |
| 16 | As taxpayers , they pay the cost of buying in and storing the meat and then pay again when they shop , because intervention keeps prices well above real commercial levels . |
| 17 | Pijnenborg et al point out that ‘ many doctors ’ participate in and accept the practice and they claim that the practice has been stable over the years and assume that it may be less in future . |
| 18 | I think there 's only about , well on average there 's only between thirty and forty cases erm and which they are happy to identify for us erm so we can go in and update the diary or , or do whatever . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I would just get in and catch the end but it was over in minutes . |
| 20 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 21 | The lad bent down and seized the foot but Beamish broke in . |
| 22 | Go on then got ta sit down and do the list and see what and see what , what 's what Just now , you feel that warmth on you now ? |
| 23 | They seem to settle down and learn the language and then they suddenly become desperate and want a crumpet or something . ’ |
| 24 | She sat down and sipped the wine and contemplated what she had done . |
| 25 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 26 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 27 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 28 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 29 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 30 | I lay down and gripped the edges as the rug bubbled and rose beneath me . |