Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years . |
| 2 | The Jam and Lewis soundtrack powers up some fairly physical action sequences , and there is a surprising amount of killings . |
| 3 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 4 | These coins contained less gold than English gold coins and , on the principle of ‘ bad money drives out good ’ , had tended to drain England of its finer gold ; this was exported to the continent where it was worth more . |
| 5 | Discussion of the effects of changes in the stock of money goes back hundreds of years . |
| 6 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
| 7 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 8 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 9 | HUNDREDS of Ulster students could find themselves homeless and on the street when university starts back next month . |
| 10 | As noted above , one course finishes in early 1985 . |
| 11 | Bad accounting drives out good . |
| 12 | Coyle signs up another Scot |
| 13 | THE political and religious crisis gripping India and Pakistan goes back hundreds of years . |
| 14 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
| 15 | Great rift goes back 500 years |
| 16 | Gazza laughs off big derby pressure |
| 17 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 18 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 19 | And the flying mattresses , the R A F looks back 50 years . |
| 20 | Anya flops down next to Rainbow , on the car-seat settee . |
| 21 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 22 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 23 | But Graham knows his dilemma lies up front with his side 's lack of goals . |
| 24 | It puts formulae in , that 's very useful , as I say it 's formulae uses up most memory , but it does n't put everything . |
| 25 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 26 | Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling . |
| 27 | Many of the important ideas have been developed in the context of such applications , principally in relation to the lowest layers of the atmosphere as the wind blows over hot or cold ground . |
| 28 | Working on the river bed with a hose attached to a powerful pump , the diver hoovers up gold- bearing alluvium . |
| 29 | DENNIS JARRETTCHECKS OUT SOME ADD-ONS , ADD-INS AND PLUG-INS . |
| 30 | But the nucleus of a pre-malignant cell takes up two to three times more dye than a normal cell , the researchers find . |