Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 2 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 3 | Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work . |
| 4 | MI6 is still controlled by the Foreign Office but the Foreign Secretary neither admits to this publicly nor asks any questions about how MI6 goes about its daily business . |
| 5 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 6 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 7 | PROUD DAD : Alan beams — but Chloe sleeps through her first public appearance Pictures : HARRY PAGE |
| 8 | Patrol tasks include keeping a particular lookout for flat-bed lorries , which are used by the IRA as baseplates for their inaccurate and random , but nonetheless effective , homemade mortars . |
| 9 | She 's not so sure at first — but then she thinks about what all her girlfriends tell her . |
| 10 | Now the world 's hottest actress tells SUNDAY LIFE about sex in the movies , sex in real life , and what she really thinks about her leading men : |
| 11 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 12 | One company that puts all its business out to tender is Ranks Hovis McDougall , which spends around £18 million per year on electricity supplies for its 60-plus production sites in the UK . |
| 13 | There are 23 raffle prizes and our MC goes through them all with full details of those donated them — a cool 30 minutes . |
| 14 | A new law setting out tough penalties for car theft goes through its final stages today.It was put through by Oxford West MP John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office . |
| 15 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 16 | Kevin Seymour goes through his photographic record of Islander 's cruises to Spain and Scandinavia |
| 17 | It goes through your nervous system . |
| 18 | Guess who baby sits for my full-time working daughter ? |
| 19 | First , it contributes through its very vagueness a richness of interpretation that would not have been achieved otherwise . |
| 20 | … when he chuses for his skilful Tongue |
| 21 | Next time my instinct for a holiday , as it does in so much else , cries for something hot and cheap , I shall stay my hand . |
| 22 | Although its meat is delicious , there is no special demand for it , and the same goes for its hard-wearing wool . |
| 23 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 24 | STORY:7.30am : Climbs out of bed in his luxury Brighton home and goes for his habitual five mile run , alone out of preference . |
| 25 | He looked around and added : ‘ That goes for your shadow-loving fleabag partner too , wherever he 's hiding . ’ |
| 26 | The themes centred around the lone legionnaire who has given up his past for the Legion , yet still longs for his former life and forgotten loves , his home and his happiness . |
| 27 | I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick . |
| 28 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 29 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 30 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |