Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many town corporations resented the rival jurisdiction of ecclesiastical institutions , and on occasions their officers became embroiled in unseemly disputes with the heads of cathedrals and monastic houses ; in 1506 , for example , the sheriff and gaol-keeper of Norwich became involved in a brawl with the prior of the city 's Benedictine cathedral priory , who was seeking to rescue one of his servants recently arrested by municipal officers . |
| 2 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 3 | Foreign contributions already received amounted to over $46,000 million and the total foreign commitment came to $54,000 million , with 96 per cent of the outstanding amount being due from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , already the largest contributors with payments of $12,700 million and $12,500 million respectively . |
| 4 | We intend to continue to strongly support the Government in NCVQ in their endeavours to achieve the national targets . |
| 5 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 6 | So do you want to go over there first ? |
| 7 | What do you think when you actually erm when you look ahead to erm moving out of the flats and finding somewhere else , where do you w where do you want to go to anyway ? |
| 8 | ‘ Yes … so where do you want to go from here ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I paid some of what we owe the milkman and I bought some sausages and some bacon from Woolworth 's because we owe Whiting 's and I did n't want to go in there . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to go in there again . ’ |
| 11 | I 've done it myself I 've said no that guy what would that guy want to go in there for . |
| 12 | The quadripartite Allied government sought to agree on how to control , in the most detailed way , every facet of the running and administration of Germany , a country where , at that time , there had been a complete collapse of the economy , the agricultural system and everything else without our ‘ help and interpretation ’ . |
| 13 | To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business . |
| 14 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 15 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 16 | A.M. Rosenthal , in the New York Times , felt that too many people had taken part in the investigation for the truth to remain hidden for ever . |
| 17 | do you want to sit over here mum ? |
| 18 | do you want to sit over here mum ? |
| 19 | The key features review referred to above is devised to identify potential deal breaking problems at an early stage , so as to limit the possibility of Big accumulating large professional fees on ultimately abortive deals . |
| 20 | I mean look , and even so I mean depending on where it 's gon na be |
| 21 | The delegations again failed to agree on when or where the negotiations should resume . |
| 22 | At a conference on April 11 of the four Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) republics with nuclear weapons — Russia , Ukraine , Byelarus and Kazakhstan — Foreign Ministers failed to agree on how to ratify and implement the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) signed by the Soviet Union and the United States in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 23 | In other words , the bulk of its plutonium is likely to remain stashed in potentially vulnerable stockpiles for at least a decade . |
| 24 | Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip . |
| 25 | They tend to work at entirely separate sections of the music , ignoring each other , but talking all the while . |
| 26 | Oh near the hospital , yeah , and you got parked in there ? |
| 27 | Stereotypes , however false , tend to persist for as long as the social differences and inequalities they reinforce . |
| 28 | Leeds , Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday failed to come from behind and overturn first-leg deficits . |
| 29 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 30 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |