Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ordered them to carry out surveys of how the birds would be affected and to prepare alternative routes for the pipeline . |
| 2 | Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America . |
| 3 | With the Technical Branch based at Southampton it was very convenient for them to carry out maintenance and to turn the engines over occasionally during the cold weather . |
| 4 | Khumalo 's allegations were strengthened by similar claims by two gang members who said that the security forces had recruited , trained and armed them to carry out attacks on ANC supporters . |
| 5 | It was important to learn about , for example , bookselling from experienced booksellers who then , accepting the genuineness of my interest and the possible value of my research , were generous in helping me with it and allowing me to carry out surveys in bookshops . |
| 6 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 7 | There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor . |
| 8 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 9 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 10 | This is a much slower atmospheric change than lungs , of course , and is suited to the confined and restricted conditions of a ‘ soil atmosphere ’ , which is just what we need for them to breathe in poison . |
| 11 | The teacher had discussed a topic with the children , and then encouraged them to write down sentences constructed from words used in their own speech . |
| 12 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 13 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 14 | Yeah , it just goes to the bottom of the pack , but erm there 's numbers up there , you 've got ta collect them to spell out sex maniac |
| 15 | ‘ When we get home , go up to bed , and later I will have them send up gruel , ’ said Dinah . |
| 16 | How do I make out contributions ? |
| 17 | ‘ As soon as I track down Carol , I 'm free . |
| 18 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 19 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 20 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 21 | How do I build up bacteria ? |
| 22 | And erm magneto broke on it and these , I mean back shockers are a bit weak on this and that , but Sharon had it and said oh it 's not big enough ! |
| 23 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 24 | ( Shampoo this one while I comb out Mrs Brown . ) |
| 25 | It is the pantomime humour we all grew up with , where the compère talks about the organist 's big organ and his steamed up glasses . |
| 26 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 27 | Only Oxford , no I 'm , mine is in in inexplicable because I 've lived in so many places and I pick up accents ! |
| 28 | Same when I 'm , when I 'm in Italy , I , I ca n't speak Italian very well , but when I 'm there a week , I pick up words very quickly and although I know my grammar is n't perfect , I can form sentences in a way that people do understand me , . |
| 29 | I pick out Moran at 36 because the defence underpins Blackburn 's challenge . |
| 30 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |