Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 2 | All this should add up to an exceedingly varied tonal palette indeed . |
| 3 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 4 | As one of the parents in the interviews described later says , ‘ When they say , you 're the experts , parents are experts , what they really mean is — you get on with that little bit over there , and we 'll get on with the really important stuff over here . ’ |
| 5 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 6 | We 'll start off on a real low now wo n't we ? |
| 7 | ‘ I should love to see them sometime , ’ said Charles , ‘ but I wonder if I might sit down for a little ? |
| 8 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 9 | They worry also about the possibility that war could spill out into the so-far peaceful bits of the Balkan neighbourhood ( see below ) . |
| 10 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 11 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 12 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 13 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |
| 14 | The sybarites who wanted the hot water bath or the hot air bath would pass through into the slightly heated room one stage farther in , and undress there , then go on in to whichever they fancied . |
| 15 | We can make our ‘ tree diagram ’ grow to look like this : If we then look at this phrase in the context of a longer phrase ‘ twenty places further back ’ , and build up the ‘ further back ’ part in a similar way , we would end up with an even more elaborate structure : |
| 16 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 17 | But he knew his chief 's dislike of unnecessary chat , and strapped as they were side by side in uncomfortably close proximity in the Enstrom F28 , he decided that the Chevisham case would get off to the most propitious start by a policy of disciplined silence . |
| 18 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 19 | SeaCo itself may come back with a slightly better offer as the sale of assets agreed so far is thought to have raised more money than was planned . |
| 20 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 21 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 22 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Just because Cindy 's exercises have produced stunning results for her does not mean Britain 's tubbies will end up with a similarly sylph-like shape . |
| 24 | Shareholders will end up with a highly leveraged vehicle — which is fine if the group is going to thrive and win its franchise , but dangerous if either the group 's stream of advertising revenue or its franchise is under threat . |
| 25 | ‘ Those who return will go back to an increasingly tolerable life and they will send messages back to those who are still in the camps and that will reinforce the voluntary return . ’ |
| 26 | There may be , within this bonfire — and until it 's taken apart we will not be able to ascertain this — there may be petroleum cans in there , there may be small L P G cylinders , all of which will go off with a very large explosion and possibly cause some injury to life . |
| 27 | Perhaps an article on Sterlets , with pictures , might interest more people and with the increased interest perhaps in time the price will come down to a more realistic level . |
| 28 | Those teachers who have served as foreign-language assistants will start out from a much better knowledge of British schools than those who have not . |
| 29 | Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs . |
| 30 | Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge , and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area . |