Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress-free Duchess goes back to work |
| 2 | The Daily Sketch goes out of business , May 1971 . |
| 3 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 4 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 5 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 6 | We used to chat a lot as we rested during the frequent route marches out of camp at Southampton . |
| 7 | Street verité rubs up against fashion , and interleaved among some impressively fat advertising are columns of tittle-tattle , industry news and those inevitable lists . |
| 8 | But as far as this security expert is concerned , unless Oxford University tightens up on security , and fast , more of its treasures will inevitably be stolen . |
| 9 | They later came to argue that class struggle goes on in state institutions ( Althusser , 1976 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | Patrick goes out with sparrow legs . |
| 11 | When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself . |
| 12 | Scott 's guitar scratches around in search of funkiness on ‘ Lose That Girl ’ while Rory 's drums shuffle off on several fruitless guests for ‘ F**I 's G**d ’ . |
| 13 | Scott 's guitar scratches around in search of funkiness on ‘ Lose That Girl ’ while Rory 's drums shuffle off on several fruitless guests for ‘ F**I 's G**d ’ . |
| 14 | Fellow Cooperite Sir Brian Jenkins stands down as Mayor on 12 November . |
| 15 | The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head , the woman a book on hers , where they can not be used , and the monk looks on with indifference . |
| 16 | Bobby signs off in style |
| 17 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 18 | TONY GREENBANK GOES BACK TO SCHOOL — ROCK SCHOOL THAT IS — WHEN HE GETS OUT ON THE CRAG WITH SOME YOUNG LAKELAND CLIMBERS |
| 19 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 20 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 21 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 22 | Pat signs on in style |
| 23 | TV Walker kicks off in soccer war |
| 24 | The deal fits in with Spring Ram 's belief that bedroom , dining and living room furniture is an important growth area . |
| 25 | In general , digestion slows down with age , and food is not absorbed so efficiently . |
| 26 | The match can not be held in Moscow because Russian football shuts down in winter , so CSKA have arranged to play their home tie in Spain . |
| 27 | My guess is that most have been discarded once an aircraft goes out of service , or even worse , confined to the skip when a travel agent or airline goes out of business . |
| 28 | New-boy Spencer goes back to school |
| 29 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 30 | The crackle of huts lives on by firelight . |