Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 2 | But the three of them got on and Fred explained that ‘ we desperately wanted to turn into a dance band but did n't know how ’ . |
| 3 | The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line . |
| 4 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 5 | No gathering of the clan was really gathered properly until Richard arrived , sartorially plumed and bearing the news from Aix to Brent . |
| 6 | Life goes on and Will was busier than ever . |
| 7 | Mrs Carson asked crossly when Ruth appeared . |
| 8 | Guscott passed on and Underwood did the business from 70 metres . |
| 9 | Druid 's Bottom was a fine house once , though it 's run down since Mr Gotobed passed on and Dilys took bad . |
| 10 | He passed on and Charlie Hatton sniggered . |
| 11 | So , you know , we expect erm , Penguin and A W er , Penguin U S certainly to go on and Longman to carry on as they are , improving . |
| 12 | John , you sit in and Maggie will help me dish up . ’ |
| 13 | I sit down and Bobby thrusts a gold-rimmed album into my arms , in which there are old photos of Gilly , Megan , Maggie and other people whom I do not know but have heard about . |
| 14 | Shakespearean editors are showing considerable innovation in moving away from the view that Shakespeare had a fixed conception for his plays , where variants between texts are ‘ error of transmission ’ , corruptions which crept in because Shakespeare was not involved in preparing his plays for print . |
| 15 | BBC chairman flies in as Birt row deepens |
| 16 | We surfed in as Terrie fought to keep control of the tiller and stop us from broaching . |
| 17 | They relented only when Branson , who had spent three sleepless nights preparing the club for opening , burst into tears of frustration . |
| 18 | It also laid down that Belau 's laws and any communications or relations with other countries , organizations or US agencies should be subject to approval by the US Department of the Interior . |
| 19 | They did not have to wait long before Shildon emerged and told them . |
| 20 | He then moved on into Armenia , but on 10th June 1190 , while crossing the River Salef , his horse shied suddenly and Barbarossa fell and disappeared beneath the swiftly flowing waters . |
| 21 | The first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears . |
| 22 | Then Palmer made it three himself , stepping in as QPR failed to get the ball away . |
| 23 | Born in 1903 , a year before Graham Greene , they met only when Orwell was dying ; and only a few letters are known to have passed between them , all composed in polite terms , as if to strangers . |
| 24 | In recent years , the obituaries have been pencilled in as Liverpool have brought in younger strike partners . |
| 25 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 26 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 27 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 28 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 29 | ‘ We feel the case for the Albion is unanswerable … does the Government think that if Leyland-DAF goes down that Britain will suddenly stop needing buses , trucks and vans ? |
| 30 | He asked only that Lionel might accompany them on the trip . |