Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 2 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 3 | Patterns of dots from a painting program tend to fall apart when enlarged or coagulate into muddy puddles if reduced . |
| 4 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 5 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 6 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 7 | The Old World monkeys tend to sit upright when at rest and many have special thick-skinned sometimes brightly coloured pads on their rear ends . |
| 8 | He had apparently been very obstreperous during the night — trying to get up , demanding to go home and so disturbing the other patients that he had been moved , temporarily to a private ward . |
| 9 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 10 | We should not want to go slower than 1/200th second because of camera movement and , for a bright day , f8 at 1/200th with ASA 200 rated film will give a result . |
| 11 | Do you want to go now or in the morning ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you want to go now or should I |
| 13 | I want to ensure that we build on the success of the first six months of NHS reforms so that no one will want to go anywhere but to his or her most immediately available hospital to receive NHS treatment . |
| 14 | In fact , she did n't want to go anywhere unless he came with her . |
| 15 | Some of our business sectors , notably nitrogen and solvents , are expected to continue to perform well and will be operated to generate cash to help fund growth sectors elsewhere . |
| 16 | The justification for this view is partly pragmatic ; as Cohen puts it , ‘ it would be a mistake to refrain from taking those explanatory steps which are open to us , just because we should prefer to go farther than our current knowledge permits ’ . |
| 17 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 18 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 19 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 20 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 21 | The children are taught to go home and tell their parents to put out their cigarettes . |
| 22 | Or do you want to sit there and ruminate a bit while while you have a look see what you 've got ? |
| 23 | You know yourself whether you tend to go quickly or whatever . |
| 24 | They would wait five miles ahead , not daring to go further because of my leg . |
| 25 | WHITBREAD yesterday denied that the 12 deals it is finalising to lease more than 1,000 pubs to regional brewers and pub chains go against government orders , aimed at loosening the big brewers ' tie . |
| 26 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 27 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 28 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 29 | Whilst it rendered the monarch formally subordinate to Parliament in the sense that it became acknowledged that , at the end of the day , the will of Parliament was to prevail , it failed to provide adequately and efficiently for the discharge of executive government . |
| 30 | They tend to work effectively when a balance of roles is present in their composition . |