Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office earned plaudits for roping in so many ministers ( a total bag of 80 ) , while Mr Ridley 's visit to China in January was responsible for the important participation of the Chinese . |
| 2 | Has this got ta stay on here ? |
| 3 | 2.35:KEEN Hunter finished just two lengths runner-up to Mr Brooks in the Prix l'Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc weekend , but is worth opposing over today 's extra furlong . |
| 4 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 5 | In addition , you 'll find this exercise is good for your alternate plucking and for building up both your left and right hand techniques . |
| 6 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 7 | Your special time for catching up together can not be shared with exuberant teenagers , the unexpected caller or a visiting relative . |
| 8 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 9 | At the other end of the tape pull out 4cm ( 1 ½in ) of cords and leave free for gathering up later . |
| 10 | 5 I think owl 's eyes are adapted for seeing in very low light . |
| 11 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 12 | A new London Bus Executive will be responsible for bus-stops , stands and stations and for contracting out socially necessary services . |
| 13 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 14 | There is a methodological issue worth drawing out here , for this business of replicating — or failing to replicate — someone else 's research findings is of course what ‘ the scientific method ’ is supposed to be about , at least according to the standard philosophy-of-science text-books . |
| 15 | ‘ Unless your reason for hanging around here is simply to irritate me with your unwelcome presence . ’ |
| 16 | This trailer will be ready for pick up about three . |
| 17 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 18 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 19 | You got ta jump down then up . |
| 20 | ’ … so pro rata , even by our own romantic criteria for singling out just one girl from the hundred we meet , there must be at least fifteen million members of the opposite sex in the world who would make an ideal mate ! … |
| 21 | Oh God yeah I 'm just waiting for to come in now . |
| 22 | ‘ I reckon I 've photographed about everything worth photographing around here , ’ he said , and went back to his ‘ Now in London … ’ theme until Leith , his enthusiasm infectious , stopped him . |
| 23 | It is important to dress comfortably , with shoes that are suitable for walking over fairly rough ground . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , after walking in almost total darkness with no lights to guide him save the fast-darkening sky , Tom reached the village hall . |
| 25 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 26 | Lenagan built a three-mile lead , but he , too , was forced to retire after notching up just over 60 miles in 8 hours 35 mins . |
| 27 | He collapsed by the roadside after wandering off alone in a daze and died hours later in intensive care . |
| 28 | ‘ Trevor himself was taken off after going on as sub last season . |
| 29 | Gordon appeared to be in two minds about the chances of Four Trix who is doubtful after pulling up slightly sore recently and is rated only 50–50 to run . |
| 30 | Once after hitching up there , I waited around in the car park until I saw him coming out — and I 'm ashamed to say I followed him home . |