Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A day or two later it can be picked or rubbed off leaving a neat professional finish . |
| 2 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 3 | Starting with the creation of the German night fighter force the author makes good use of eyewitness accounts from former Luftwaffe pilots , and goes on to portray a vivid account of what life was like serving on a night fighter unit . |
| 4 | Very rarely , a newborn infant contracts herpes simplex and goes on to develop an acute viral infection of the brain , which is almost invariably fatal . |
| 5 | The southern equatorial current is diverted south , past the Solomon Islands , and goes on to bathe the Great Barrier Reef — and , indeed , much of the Australian coastline down past Sydney — in the tropical water of the east Australian current . |
| 6 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 7 | On reading such statements , would Ptolemy have seen the error of his ways , instantly recanted and toddled off to join the Copernican revolution ? |
| 8 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 9 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 10 | It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’ |
| 11 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |
| 12 | He suddenly remembered Father Reynard 's corpse and stooped down to examine the leather-heeled boots of the assassins . |
| 13 | Rose flushed with annoyance and seemed about to make a sharp retort . |
| 14 | Plant ‘ Pixie ’ 6in apart , and thin out to leave every other one . |
| 15 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 16 | Then he got back in and came out holding a mobile phone , which he crammed into a coat pocket . |
| 17 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 18 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 19 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 20 | So here we go , boot toecaps are suitably polished , draw the leg back slowly and stand by to put a large boot into architects . |
| 21 | The parallelism may be less transparent : in 22 foot and scrutinise have a parallel relation to bill , and in 23 foot and add up have a parallel relation to bill . |
| 22 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 23 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 24 | Switch to wavy bullets and go left , get over the blocker and jump up to shoot the fat creature . |
| 25 | If you run It backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to form a whole cup on the table . |
| 26 | Then he attached a rope to it and scuttered down to tie the other end on to the front axle of the Golf . |
| 27 | The oak door opened easily , and swung back to reveal a wide hall . |
| 28 | The whole army was then to advance on London , crossing the Thames to the west at Hampton Court , Kingston , Kew and Putney and moving round to occupy the northern heights of Hampstead and Highgate , to cut off London from relief from that direction . |
| 29 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 30 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |