Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 2 | Buy-out/buy-in business now accounts for a quarter of investments made by venture capital funds , whereas the number of startups account for only approximately 13 per cent ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 3 | We believe that book clubs and other mail order outlets account for only about 10% of the total sales of the books which are the cause of concern . |
| 4 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 5 | If you sit for long enough you can feel the energy swirling around the rim . |
| 6 | If a further control , such as social class , is added then interrelated controls can make the specifications very limited — the interviewer having to find two women aged 30 to 55 , of lower middle-class — towards the quota of 20. obviously , independent controls make life easier for interviewers , and interrelated controls make for more definitely representative samples . |
| 7 | You do n't feel that you sleep for long enough . |
| 8 | Do n't know , and I want for as well for options cos I want to get everything done , I already forewarned them last time |
| 9 | Summarise in not more than 100 words the key features of an intervention method . |
| 10 | Yeah I want in there as well |
| 11 | say from here here to Corby or something like that |
| 12 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 13 | But erm the doctors have told me really I can do whatever I want to straight away virtually you know , and erm I 'll just give it another week or two weeks before I start practising erm and you know , I 'm very fit now . |
| 14 | There is absolutely no doubt that you can do it if you want to badly enough . |
| 15 | You should lay the same type of foundation as you would for any other path , but you can cheat if you want to by simply removing the top soil and vegetation , then fixing wooden side restraints . |
| 16 | I did n't ask to fall in love with you , but by God , lady , I have , and I have every reason to believe you want to as well . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 18 | For historians the drawback is that the gaps appear at just about every point where there is something they would like to know . |
| 19 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |
| 20 | If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across . |
| 21 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 22 | Work is very rarely performed by a man without the aid of some machinery and correspondingly machines rarely function for very long without human intervention . |
| 23 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 24 | In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again . |
| 25 | For example , today we worry about all right , and prefer it to alright ; but we happily accept already , although , almost … |
| 26 | The so-called secondary categories consist of almost equally linguistic concepts : negation and opposition , comparatives , modes , and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't wait to meet this Alice you both speak of so often , ’ Cora-Beth said thoughtfully . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not think you even realise the danger you walk towards so willingly . ’ |
| 29 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 30 | If one had got thruppence he could go in the pub and get get stop in there nearly for nearly The pubs used to open at six o'clock you know till eleven o'clock at night . |