Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | this goes down each time until finally |
2 | But if it goes down that route , it will face some criticism from its members . |
3 | Yeah well she she sleeps she goes down some time between eight thirty and eleven . |
4 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
5 | ‘ My daughter lives down that way . |
6 | And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing . |
7 | Brutus starts off this passage with a rhetorical question , and then goes on to explain why he killed Caesar , including all Caesar 's good aspects . |
8 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
9 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
10 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
11 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
12 | he lives out all year and has a total sunblock applied to protect the sensitive areas . |
13 | A strip which has been missed with the herbicide stands out all season long , to the embarrassment of both spray operator and farmer . |
14 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
15 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
16 | Lucker drops his camera and holds out another knife . |
17 | Big Ears just lies around all day ‘ tuning in ’ . |
18 | His rendition of the approach journey from Kingsburgh fills in more detail than Johnson 's , with the revealing observation — still visibly understandable — that their guide navigated across the moors much in the same manner as , I suppose , is pursued in the wilds of America , by observing certain marks known only to the inhabitants ' . |
19 | It puts formulae in , that 's very useful , as I say it 's formulae uses up most memory , but it does n't put everything . |
20 | Wakes up each day demanding ‘ What is fresh in the market ? ’ , buys only the best , and creates a superb , no-choice menu — reaffirming her customers ' belief in her quality every day . |
21 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
22 | Gandhi 's emphasis on Sarvodaya , the welfare of ill , as both an expression of Truth and a means of realizing Truth bears out this point . |
23 | The following list of skills and abilities taken from Educational Objectives for the Study of History written in 1971 by Jeanette Coltham and John Fines bears out this point . |
24 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
25 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
26 | What happened to them was the not-so-mystery ailment that cuts down more pop stars than drugs or fast cars ever do : overwork . |
27 | It hangs over any thickness of wardrobe rail and fastens with Velcro . |
28 | Guy Sabini shows off another soaraway Spam exclusive |
29 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
30 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |