Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 2 | Heat through gently while tossing all the ingredients together . |
| 3 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 4 | These results harmonise remarkably well and suggest that treatment of patients aged between 60 and 80 with systolic blood pressure persistently above 160 mm Hg will prevent 30–50% of strokes in these patients . |
| 5 | Stand up straight and stop that bloody twitching . ’ |
| 6 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 7 | They know less about and watch less television than anyone else in the country . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Sacco , you get up there and take those keys out , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 9 | Get up there and visit all the realtors who have offices in those towns . |
| 10 | Examine under the phase microscope and if it is too thin , spin down again and remove some of the fixative . |
| 11 | ‘ You go off now and forget all about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Come right in and get those wet things off . |
| 13 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 14 | ‘ Come along now and get some dinner inside you , if that hair 's dry . |
| 15 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you , Hawkins , my name 's Doctor Streeter , not Miss Streeter ; now come up here and wipe that filth off . ’ |
| 16 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 17 | Behave well here and remember those who brought you up by hand ! ’ |