Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach , in season , or in the park or a café , reading or catching up on my correspondence , or chatting to friends and acquaintances , as the whim took me . |
| 2 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 3 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 4 | The Tribunal 's ruling stipulated , however , that the funds could be returned to the Philippines only after a Philippines court had issued a " legally binding verdict " on whether the assets were to be confiscated or given back to their claimants . |
| 5 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 6 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 7 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 8 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 9 | Does lazy , for example , mean the person arrives late every day , or takes an excessive lunch break , or never volunteers for anything , or lies about with his eyes closed half the time ? |
| 10 | Which make you cringe slightly , or shift about in your seat ? |
| 11 | Furthermore , it is commonly argued that the courts can fail to place a proper actuarial value on potential pension benefits and that ( typically in pursuit of a ‘ clean break ’ ) a divorcing wife 's loss of potential benefits can be ‘ traded off ’ or glossed over against her need for a home . |
| 12 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 13 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 14 | Sun users in the UK that would like to take advantage of Hewlett-Packard 's highly thought-of VUE Visual User Environment graphical user interface , can now get a copy from Loughborough , Leicestershire-based Tectonic Ltd , which is selling a Sun port of the software for £375 , or bundled in with its £6,000 SDT 400 Sparc workstations from Trigem . |
| 15 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 16 | Interior Minister Horacio Serpa Uribe on April 17 confirmed that the government would not negotiate with the drug cartels or give in to their violence and would continue the policy of extradition . |
| 17 | But his attitude he 'd been taught to get on and do things so that he would be painting the back of the house or going on with his hobby or doing jobs on the car . |
| 18 | where the petitioner has suffered an undoubted legal wrong — been assaulted and beaten , or turned out of his property , but for some reason can not get redress , because he is poor and his opponent is rich and powerful , because juries are corrupt or timid . |
| 19 | See that you write or print out from your computer a clear explanation of each part of your analysis as you do it . |
| 20 | The manager , Peter Rose and his team are available on Oxford 742048 , telephone or pop in at your leisure . |
| 21 | Antony Royd was going to look like a beer advert in another year or two , coming into the bar from the polo-field or getting out of his powerboat after a race . |
| 22 | ‘ Shut your wicked mouth , or get out of my house , do you hear ? ’ |
| 23 | So it will tend to pull and it almost definitely is either reaching or pulling or holding something or holding on for your life , |
| 24 | Edward Saul , in An Historical and Philosophical Account of the Barometer or Weather-glass ( 1735 ) says : ‘ it may perhaps be an Inducement to some of the Gentlemen of Lincolnshire , to deal with Mr Jonathan Sisson … ; that he is their Country Man , and eminent for his great Skill , Accuracy and Fidelity , both in the Construction of his Barometers , and in whatever Work , he undertakes , or delivers out of his Hands . ’ |
| 25 | Beyond the door the snow was falling more heavily and the men who crowded there braced themselves to run or shamble back to their huts . |
| 26 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 27 | in exactly the same way as the Suffolk Punch would get down or stoop on to its knees in its efforts to draw a full or heavy load . |
| 28 | You can arm or disarm the system as you come in or go out of your home and your will have your own personal access code . |
| 29 | Or go back to your flat and have to cope with more poison pen letters — and the press ? ’ |
| 30 | Lawton shuffled uneasily , but did n't try and contradict her or go back on his description . |