Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique involves spreading out the pastel dust with a tissue as an exceptionally thin film into which delicate variations can then be introduced , either by dabbing on more dust , perhaps of different colours , or by lifting it away with a putty eraser . |
| 2 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 3 | Women 's hair got blown about . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Rose , ’ she said silently , ‘ you make my heart want to burst out of me . |
| 5 | This had led to the widespread belief that DIY CPE involves setting up expensive in-house training facilities with dedicated staff . |
| 6 | ‘ But I thought yer was sayin' that Joe 's bruvver got beaten up over Stepney . |
| 7 | and Mum goes get up ! |
| 8 | And then my Mum goes , eight o'clock I still ai n't up , my Mum goes get out of bed . |
| 9 | On Monday Clark 's board met to weigh up three rival offers , all believed to be about £150 million . |
| 10 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 11 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 12 | We feel we have some sort of responsibility to continue jumping up and down until the situation has improved . |
| 13 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 14 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 15 | Berg 's case was that the unqualified report by the auditors gave the company an opportunity to continue to carry on business and to borrow money from third parties . |
| 16 | The photographer got pissed off and went back to the paper and said they were uncooperative and really difficult , ’ says Houghton . |
| 17 | My accent got mixed up . ’ |
| 18 | My mum got fed up with it . |
| 19 | The main stumbling block was a demand by Kuwait to be given freedom to continue building up production to cover a $50 billion bill for the Gulf war and subsequent reconstruction costs . |
| 20 | It just gave me an excuse to come charging up here . ’ |
| 21 | The retailer has to work out what the ideal stock level will be , and try to keep numbers very close to that . |
| 22 | ‘ The twelve-year-old has grown up , ’ she reminded him , blushing slightly . |
| 23 | Because as a percentage in the erm , as a percentage of trade , agriculture has gone down has n't it ? |
| 24 | The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system . |
| 25 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 26 | According to US reports , Oracle Corp has sent out beta copies of 14 next-generation application development tools to developers . |
| 27 | VI Corp has gone about addressing dynamic growth by re-engineering a subset of its DataViews graph components as X-widgets . |
| 28 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 29 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 30 | We hear Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on DEC 's competitive Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |