Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before he thinks about drifting off to the sun , Biggins wants another taste of cup glory . |
| 2 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 3 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |
| 4 | It 's the only chance she has of getting out on her own . ’ |
| 5 | When a suitable opportunity occurs , a tutor should encourage his students to send in tests regularly for correction , pointing out that this is the only way a student has of finding out whether he really understands a subject . |
| 6 | Pick , squeeze seeds and pulp into a container and leave , adding water if it looks like drying out . |
| 7 | Looks like , looks like sawing off and redoing |
| 8 | The LDP 's rebellious faction no longer looks like splitting off : on June 2nd one of its members said secession would achieve nothing , and that the best way to bring about reform was to work behind the scenes . |
| 9 | Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well . |
| 10 | As for the 125cc , well Robert Dunlop leads Joey by 13 points and looks like holding on . |
| 11 | It looks like boiling up into a battle in the athletics bullring between Christie , Burrell and fellow American Dennis Mitchell , plus Namibia 's Frankie Fredericks . |
| 12 | Amanda Wright ( Tipton ) , winner of the women 's race for the past two years who set a new course record last year , will not be defending her title and so Cardiff veteran Liz Hughes looks like starting as favourite . |
| 13 | For the fragmentation of the vote looks like increasing e.g. by the probable revival of the Greens . |
| 14 | But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 16 | On the first half performance neither side looks like scoring though . |
| 17 | December 1988 : The budget deficit for 1988-89 looks like turning out at £4m or £5m . |
| 18 | And already it looks like stirring up fierce controversy . |
| 19 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 20 | Among these borderline cases will come the short-story version of the inverted detective story we have already looked at , the story where the murderer is known to the reader from the outset and the pleasure lies in seeing how , inadvertently , he betrays himself , or she herself . |
| 21 | With these people the remedy lies in pointing out the responsibility that faith requires . |
| 22 | The difference lies in bringing together and summarizing facts and opinions , to produce a judgement . |
| 23 | I believe profoundly in all these things , it goes without saying ; my difficulty lies in knowing how defensible they are in the form in which they are visibly institutionalized in the anglophone academy . |
| 24 | The hooligan , however , tends to have the longer career since part of his art lies in knowing how far to ‘ push his luck ’ . |
| 25 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 26 | But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland . |
| 27 | The danger of course , lies in taking on too much . |
| 28 | We firmly believe the key to long term success lies in engaging as many ‘ actors ’ as possible in the process of habitat and species protection and enhancement , rather than in requiring one authority to perform a clinical , curatorial role . |
| 29 | One important contribution of these essays lies in showing just why this is necessary , with particularly helpful and clear accounts in essays by Anne Phillips , Moira Gatens and Michèe Barrett . |
| 30 | A danger lies in arriving home and baffling the local medical profession with an intractable high fever . |