Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like .
2 Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel .
3 I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’
4 ‘ She hates the way everyone goes on in England .
5 Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
6 Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle , either sailing around the windsurf bay till the winds become gusty , or sailing upwind for lunch at the long beach .
7 Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle .
8 Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes .
9 Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life .
10 Nothing goes on in St Jude 's that I do n't know about — should I choose to enquire . "
11 Everyone lines up in ranks , all facing the instructor , who is the highest authority in the dojo and is recognized by his black belt .
12 Did you not tell her that everyone dresses up for Willi 's party ?
13 If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air .
14 He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost .
15 ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’
16 ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ?
17 Cross-examined by his solicitor , Nigel Bruce , Middleton said : ‘ I am shaking in case someone goes back to Newcastle and says something .
18 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) .
19 What will we do when someone misses out on asylum but clearly has a case , albeit one that falls short of asylum , which is not bogus ?
20 ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events .
21 So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not .
22 So when you , if someone camps on to you , is that what happens , if I take my desk , there 's an unusual amount of ringing and nobody there when I actually pick it up .
23 When someone comes up to me however and says , ‘ Where can I take the family for a reasonably priced holiday ? ’
24 When someone comes up to him and says , ‘ Hey , Per , could you do a concert in aid or our church roof , £20 expenses , staying overnight with the verger and his wife ? ’ , he says , ‘ Of course !
25 The nicest compliment I 'm ever paid is when someone comes up to me and says : " You 're no different from what you are on the screen " .
26 Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled .
27 Someone comes up to you and you only have to say you 're not interested in drugs ; sooner or later they 'll leave you alone because they 're too busy trying to find a £5 deal to bang up with in the evening .
28 Do not wear a personal stereo headset so that you are unaware if someone comes up behind you .
29 Each of the probabilities — until someone comes along to ‘ fix ’ it — has equal validity , equal reality .
30 Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show .
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