Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 2 | In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality . |
| 3 | For example , desperate politicians tend to fall back on it to appease working class voters in the United States and the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | In a famous book entitled Your God is too Small J.B. Phillips ( 1932 ) drew up a list of twelve inadequate concepts of God which people tend to carry around with them . |
| 5 | They now intend to go back to their original preferred scheme for a twice weekly market in nearby pedestrianised Station Road . |
| 6 | And I intend to go down to London . |
| 7 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 8 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 9 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 10 | An' I mean to go through with it , we both mean to go through with it . |
| 11 | An' I mean to go through with it , we both mean to go through with it . |
| 12 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 13 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 14 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 15 | But they still tend to go round in packs every so slightly . |
| 16 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 17 | Their cultural background is that of a small rural community where women tend to go out with family members or neighbours . |
| 18 | The ultimate in this line is the standing order , usually employed for annuals , which tend to go out of print very quickly once advance subscriptions are satisfied . |
| 19 | and if that inefficiency was causing the problem it 's not the result of the ownership er , there are inefficient private companies it 's just that inefficient private companies tend to go out of business , whereas inefficient public ones can be maintained with subsidization . |
| 20 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 21 | I think by and large that will have no effect on us at all , since most of the independent films that we 're responsible for tend to go out under club showings and do not therefore need to have certificates . |
| 22 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 23 | we tend to go back to feet I must say . |
| 24 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 25 | When we do so , I intend to carry on with my job , which has agricultural connections . |
| 26 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 27 | Nor does the intention of building in order to replace obsolete prisons tend to work out in practice . |
| 28 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 29 | So linguists too tend to come up with grammatically correct , but somewhat peculiar examples : ‘ Sincerity may frighten the boy ’ ( Chomsky 1965:63 ) and so on . |
| 30 | If , also like me , you have a weakness for stockpiling past copies of nursing journals because you intend to catch up on such and such an article , then it is worth investing in some proper journal binders . |