Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords . |
| 2 | one or two pieces I had to deal with , or bring home with me . |
| 3 | This involves getting the aircraft into an attitude with the tail-wheel or skid just off the ground . |
| 4 | To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way . |
| 5 | We need something dramatic to focus it , either to introduce something which will create a potential for change in this situation ( which will potentially destabilise the situation ) or pick up on something going on in the groups which will have the same effect ; we need to focus on an issue . |
| 6 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 7 | When we shop or eat out in cafés , college canteens or restaurants , we tend to select food for appeal and taste , not nutrient value . |
| 8 | But Ah tell ye this , laddie , Ah 'm a helluva fast learner , so do n't think ye can pull the wool or sit around on yer fat little arse doin' bugger all . |
| 9 | Stand or sit comfortably without fidgeting . |
| 10 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 11 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 12 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to impress on people that they are contravening the law if they moor or make fast to navigation aids , ’ says Howard Cooper , a spokesman for Trinity House . |
| 14 | we 'll I think , be okay and , provided we do n't excessively energetic and too stupid , get too hot in the bath or that 's not a very good thing to do , or crash out with er flu or something I dare say anyone can crash out , I mean you , you , you could be a president of the United States |
| 15 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 16 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
| 17 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 18 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 19 | Fulfil consumables requests or report back to users CSO |
| 20 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 21 | And er if you call up the program or fax in for whatever reason , then you can get yourself a free afternoon pack . |
| 22 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 23 | … freedom of speech , and debates on proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . |
| 24 | 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 , prohibits simply the impeachment or questioning of parliamentary proceedings in ‘ any court or place out of Parliament ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ That the freedome of speech and debates or proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parlyament . |
| 26 | That the free dome of Speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Courte or place out of Parliament . |
| 27 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 28 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 29 | Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder . |
| 30 | Fix the doctor or nurse up with white coats , stethoscope and little lights of the kind used for looking in ears . |