Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about .
2 Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
3 ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’
4 Like someone struggling out of a drugged sleep , Sarella flickered open her eyelids , blinking in confusion as if unsure as to where she was .
5 But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants .
6 Someone carried out to the nine men a tray of bottled beer and the spell broke .
7 Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably .
8 To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular .
9 They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain .
10 ‘ We 've got someone coming in on a blue light , a young man who 's fallen under a train .
11 If it was someone coming in with a nasty attitude really filthy , scruffy , dirty , no fixed address because they lived in er er , an old wagon some where
12 Why ca n't someone come up with a better boot than a rubber one ?
13 He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead .
14 Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show .
15 But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club .
16 nothing came out of the last committee meeting to a definite , this is definite this .
17 Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance .
18 But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up .
19 or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign .
20 Now we need an optimistic accountant , can somebody look out for an optimistic accountant
21 The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else .
22 All I know is that God is n't a good explanation , so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one . "
23 in that they 're electrically they really are electrical charges , and somebody comes up with a big positive electrical pole of a a battery
24 Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital .
25 Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut .
26 A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job .
27 As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor .
28 ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’
29 For example , I pass through a sequence of states identical to one passed through by a native Chinese speaker in being presented with a question in Chinese and giving the answer in Chinese .
30 In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign .
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