Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
| 2 | But he says I gets on like quite well with Peter and |
| 3 | His flicks on into nowhere used to infuriate me . |
| 4 | Anyway I comes out to here and said do n't go near that door , open the back door very careful , there 's three kids got and then we went out and chase the buggers . |
| 5 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 6 | Plain food and good beer are to be had in Berlin 's oldest tavern , Zur Letzten Instanz ( 2125528 e ) , in the Waisenstrasse , which goes back at least to 1621 . |
| 7 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 8 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 10 | It 's basically since you 've got onto your er your vertical S and C , which goes back to about nineteen seventy . |
| 11 | Patricks denied that Asynchronous Transfer Mode support was a change of heart for DEC , which has up to now focussed on FDDI but , he said , ‘ it might be a change of public statement ’ . |
| 12 | It will be necessary to introduce a distinction , which has up to now not been needed , between two kinds of element relevant to lexical semantics . |
| 13 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 14 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 15 | The cynicism which grows out of not having her tender feelings acknowledged and valued replaces the openness and tenderness with which she first entered into the partnership . |
| 16 | As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades . |
| 17 | Nobody walks out of there without me saying , Yes it 's good for you and er here 's a date erm you know for where where the training course starts . |
| 18 | A well presented semi-detached property which dates back to approximately 1915 . |
| 19 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 20 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 21 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 22 | Compensation is paid to the producer , a total of £524,008 so far , which works out at about 78p a bird and is far from adequate , according the egg producers ' association . |
| 23 | Keep it short is one obvious piece of advice — the SHE-Pandora short story competition has an upper limit of 5000 words , which works out at roughly 15 pages of A4 typed with double spacing . |
| 24 | The ‘ cheekbone ’ , which runs down from just behind the eye , is cut back so that it will finish up barely in proud of the surface . |
| 25 | ‘ So she goes on about how wise he is , and what a brilliant speaker and … |
| 26 | She goes back to there ? |
| 27 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 28 | Mrs Wood has found that John can be distracted from this early morning behaviour by food , so that when she wakes up at about 7.30am she can put on the TV for him ( he likes the advertisements for toys ) and give him crisps , peanuts and a tin of Coke . |
| 29 | aha , and you meets up with so many wonderful people . |
| 30 | Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people . |