Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
| 2 | SHe 'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated . |
| 3 | Has anybody heard about how tasks can be categoried ? |
| 4 | All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy . |
| 5 | Equally important , close personal relationships based on mutual regard and trust developed between both tutors and Jacques . |
| 6 | Lots of figures were bandied about when news of the first rebel tour broke in 1982 — some newspapers suggested we were on around Pounds 40,000 a man but that was just speculation . |
| 7 | ‘ We thinks as 'ow Gareth Davis is drownded , sir , ’ he stated . |
| 8 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the PICA chip set and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a fivefold performance leap over 66MHz Intel 80486DX2 machines . |
| 9 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the ‘ PICA ’ chip and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a five time performance leap over 66MHz Intel 486DX2 machines . |
| 10 | They show that grants worth about £350 million were made last year , the first full year of means-tested grants , compared with £1 billion in 1989 . |
| 11 | As a cyclist who rides for both leisure and commuting I am very concerned about the proposed local government reorganisation into unitary Councils . |
| 12 | You need a firm base allowing for about 30mm of sand plus the thickness of the slabs so your path will lie flush with the lawn soil level . |
| 13 | " I have arranged for both builder and architect to be here at two o'clock . |
| 14 | Placements could be arranged for both observation and practice in several contrasting situations , such as a cathedral , an inner city parish , or a village church . |
| 15 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 16 | Physical and social activities , meals , and drinks All the advice given for westward flights applies equally after flights to the east . |
| 17 | As the UK 's main independent AIDS home care provider , we cared for around 25% of all those who died of AIDS last year . |
| 18 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 19 | Today good , unconverted barns in his area sell for about £75,000 . |
| 20 | Battered by Apple , Compaq and Dell , NEC belatedly announced big price cuts in February , but its computers still sell for about ¥150,000 more than those of its foreign competitors . |
| 21 | It owns three subsidiaries : Charles Farris , which makes enormous church candles that sell for about £35 each ; Aidee International , which manufactures pottery Beatrix Potter soap dishes in Devon ; and Candle Flare , a Colchester-based maker of Christmas decorations . |
| 22 | These antiques of the future sell for about £375 in rosewood . |
| 23 | I have seen some 1.8-litre CL models with under 10,000 miles on the clock sell for around £10,000 within the trade . |
| 24 | Beaver Clear Satin Floor Varnish is available in 1 litre and 5 litre packs which sell for around £13 and £44 respectively . , . . |
| 25 | As from 3 May the premium for lots sold for over £30,000 will be raised to 15% while those making less than that figure will still be charged at 10% . |
| 26 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 27 | The guide price for Cradley was £1.75m , and market sources believe it sold for about £1.9m , suggesting a yield less than 4.5% . |
| 28 | Some of Thomson 's holidays to Spain sold for only £25 a week or £35 for two weeks , and 500 Intasun Holidays were offered for £39 each . |
| 29 | Estimated at $20–30,000 it sold for only $16,000 ( £8,900 ) to a private collector . |
| 30 | But North-East Transport 2000 spokesman Brian Milnes said : ‘ We think the railway could be reinstated for around £1m and take both passengers and freight off the roads reducing the need for a bypass . |