Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An industry which uses the vehicle on long haul will derive different periodic benefits from an industry which uses it over many , short journeys . |
| 2 | As you drive from our patchwork countryside into towns like Saumur , Angers , Nantes or Le Mans , your journey takes you back hundreds of years . |
| 3 | Phones him up two minutes past three I 'm gon na try and get the three o'clock train ! |
| 4 | So Trish takes him out one day lost the ball ! |
| 5 | The novel with two endings does n't reproduce this reality : it merely takes us down two diverging paths . |
| 6 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 7 | It takes us back 20 years . |
| 8 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 9 | Buggers us up promotion-wise in future again but |
| 10 | A particle of spin 2 is like a double-headed arrow ( Fig. 5.1-iii ) : it looks the same if one turns it round half a revolution ( 180 degrees ) . |
| 11 | He thinks it over some more . |
| 12 | He follows me about all day . ’ |
| 13 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 14 | squares the ball to his left and Alan the left back just pushes it out wide to that far side but he loses out , competing successfully , he 's got going forward if he can find him , and gets it and lays it off to and can now run at Mickey once more . |
| 15 | We are all used to the exploitation of art by tourism , but touristic exploitation of the miseries of war and the destruction of art is a grotesque perversion which brings us up short . |
| 16 | Whatever the pragmatics of the decision , however , a closer look at the New Testament and the justification which the early Christians chose to give for abandoning circumcision reveals much about the ritual and ironically brings us back full circle to the notion of gendered blood and the whole culture-nature : male-female scenario . |