Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But win Norwich did and they have since gone on to preserve their First Division lives and reach the FA Cup semi-finals . |
2 | Denmark and Holland usually back Britain when it champions free-market causes ; yet , like Britain , they want the common agricultural policy to go on subsidising their large farms . |
3 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
4 | Taff carried on eating his large piece of lamb . |
5 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
6 | She stopped breathing but her heart kept on thudding its own wild race . |
7 | The House then went on to pass its own defence budget which seriously undermined the future of the B-2 " Stealth " bomber programme and the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) . |
8 | Cos I took Nicky in to see her first because our Nicky 's one of those that erm takes a long time to get to know anybody ? |
9 | ‘ But I just used to hide my glue bag in the toilet before I went in to see my social worker . ’ |
10 | If you ever get up our way call in to see my old lassie , ’ he took and held their hands . |
11 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
12 | ‘ I must apologize , ’ he began , ‘ for not coming in to see you this morning , as I said I would . |
13 | Small wonder then , that real friendship for them comes from someone who deep down understands what this involves . |
14 | Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses . |
15 | Mrs. Pridmore , comforted , drew back the curtains and settled down to enjoy her third cup of tea . |
16 | You go along to see him first thing tomorrow . ’ |
17 | David heard about that , went along to see it one day , and that 's how the partnership with Lindsay started . ’ |
18 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
19 | ‘ Ross … ’ she gasped as he lowered her dress , his fingers tracing the pale blue veins in her full breasts , quivering as she glanced down to see his tanned hands moving slowly over her pale , alabaster skin . |
20 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |
21 | I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white , numbed fingers . |
22 | Aine Murray explained : ‘ My father was driving along minding his own business when the window suddenly came in . |
23 | Even those who were prepared to join in found it difficult to understand what the camp was trying to achieve . |
24 | FLOAT or FLOTATION : Freeing your currency to float up or down to find its own level . |
25 | Between the islands and the edge of the two plates is one further feature — a series of ultra-deep trenches in the sea-bed , where the Pacific Plate is being forced down to meet its original maker . |
26 | ‘ I mentioned to the master that Adèle wanted to be introduced to the ladies , and he asked you to bring her down to meet them this evening . ’ |
27 | A Spaniard and an Englishman were arguing over some duty , when the Englishman headbutted the Spaniard between the eyes ; as the latter stepped backwards clutching his face , the Briton executed a curious hopping movement as he placed both his hands behind the Spaniard 's head and wrenched it down to meet his upcoming knee . |
28 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
29 | Call in to discover what real value for money is , on superb conservatories and kitchens . |
30 | Each morning I 'd go in to discover what sadistic treats were lined up for me , as a variation from the relatively conventional topical newsy interviews . |