Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , the molecules involved are so small — remember all those New Testaments fitting on a pin 's head — that they are under constant assault from the ordinary jostling of molecules that goes on due to heat . |
| 2 | She waves at Kurt , says , ‘ I just wan na say goodnight , ’ then sits down next to him . |
| 3 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 4 | yes , then she comes and sits down next to us . |
| 5 | How come time speeds up and slows down all at once ? |
| 6 | Anya flops down next to Rainbow , on the car-seat settee . |
| 7 | Each numbered block counts down nearer to destruction when you walk over it . |
| 8 | Every time he found one he held all the flapping notices down one by one , and read through lists of hockey teams , and announcements of meetings to be held by religious societies . |
| 9 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 10 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 11 | Mr Sangster , who tees off first at 8am today in a pro-am golf tournmament in Jersey , is hoping to arrive at Newbury about half-an-hour before the Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 12 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 13 | But Graham knows his dilemma lies up front with his side 's lack of goals . |
| 14 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 15 | Val Savage searches out some of the cleanest looks for this summer . |
| 16 | Cable & Wireless holds around three-quarters of the shares , the Hong Kong Government another 7 per cent and the remainder are held by outside shareholders . |
| 17 | Then he brushes over some of the issues which run through the play which are especially noticeable at the end . |
| 18 | ‘ He has that Attila the Hun touch which rarely goes over big in diplomatic circles . ’ |
| 19 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 20 | ( It is difficult for him … the incoming mail has become inaccessible until he frees up some of his allocated disk capacity ) . |
| 21 | Another way is to give five points to the team which finishes first and ten to the team which fills up more of the bottle in a single round . |
| 22 | Remember this set of figures closes on thirtieth of September . |
| 23 | It was the only decoration in the room , a picture that hangs over thousands of mantelpieces , bought in a chain store . |
| 24 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 25 | It is an inexorable consequence of classical physics that such an accelerating electron radiates off some of its energy at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the electron 's circulation . |
| 26 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 27 | Strapping the DataMax onto one 's wrist shows up one of its few faults . |
| 28 | The original material of the axis shows up black against the background of the rock . |
| 29 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 30 | Where firms produce identical outputs and have identical constant marginal costs equilibrium price ends up equal to this common cost . |