Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alida knew better than to follow up that particular avenue of thought . |
| 2 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 3 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 4 | ‘ We-ell , they 're forecasting heavy rain , ’ Simon pointed out , ‘ but if I had a key to the cottage I could go in and fix up some temporary weatherproofing until the roof can be properly repaired . ’ |
| 5 | Should you cash it in and take out another ? |
| 6 | The former Wimbledon striker said : ‘ We 've got to start digging in and dish out some of the rough stuff . |
| 7 | I can arrange to have someone come in and clear up this mess in the morning after the fingerprint team have finished . ’ |
| 8 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 9 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 10 | So he took me back to his place and pulled his pants down and took out this big bundle with the works in it , like . |
| 11 | We could go to Camden Market together and pick out some furniture . ’ |
| 12 | Add the wine and bring to the boil , stirring constantly and scraping down any meat particles from the sides of the pan . |
| 13 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 14 | Now you have to go to Liverpool and rather than go over each day and gerr a quarter , I 'd rather buy a gram and keep hold of it . |
| 15 | Again , you need to make the hand do the telling , rather than bring in any extra information from outside . |
| 16 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 17 | But I mean a lot of us suggested that rather than pick out all these very difficult to understand erm time tables it would be far better to have a personage at bus stations and things . |
| 18 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 19 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 20 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 21 | If we go through and chuck out all the grotty stuff . |
| 22 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 23 | She says a massage will help loosen you up and get the blood flowing normally and warm up those aching muscles . |
| 24 | Then , turn the picture over and clean off any remaining fingerprints . |
| 25 | Along with Sir James he found the US much more attractive , taking over and breaking up some fairly hefty US corporations . |
| 26 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 27 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 28 | Maintenance engineers right and check over some of the process plant on the press floor . |
| 29 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 30 | It touched her deeply and brought out all her gentleness . |