Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] and [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 'm going to do my shoes on and with that cos this carpet 's still damp . |
2 | Fig 36 Feet positioning : As the wind increases , move feet back and towards windward rail to counter the capsize fall |
3 | The distinctive feature of the beliefs is that they assert or imply the honour or prestige due to the group over and against another or other groups , and consequently motivate the group to achieve such honour on the field of social conflict . |
4 | erm the women that I talk to in groups up and down this county , I think some are angrier than they were , some are feel more empowered erm if they have if they 've had these sorts of experiences that I was talking about earlier . |
5 | Er the second initiative was to form industry groups , er textiles , retail , er automotive erm chemicals and plastics , none of those industry groups will be surprising to you since those are all the predominant industry groups in the region but again forming groups , three , four , five people again across practice areas to get to know about that particular industry group so that they can focus on er er companies that are operating in that group er put on seminars er and have small workshops , they would attract those sort of people , those sort of businesses in and in that way penetrate the er companies . |
6 | After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture . |
7 | They took an early lead in the opening round and with another high score in round two they just headed the Mix-ups . |
8 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
9 | The nature of the decision may well be taken into account in determining what the content of natural justice should be in a particular instance , but the utility of the administrative , judicial , executive , legislative distinctions over and beyond this is difficult to perceive . |
10 | The Spanish threat was by no means over and in 1590 , with Brittany occupied , the Spaniards had a good base to launch attacks on Cornwall . |
11 | The difficulty will be in getting regional policy through and in some areas of the country do not have natural regions . |
12 | So , er , in terms of composite twenty seven , it 's a very simple resolution , and it 's basically saying we should be supporting the er demands of the er campaign for pension fund democracy and the charter , and that we should abandon the committee takes those on , those demands , and er , we should be campaigning for that very very important issue , which is affecting increasingly millions of people up and down this country , not just the p the er the Maxwell pensioners . |
13 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
14 | There 's no harm could come to me here , with good neighbours round and about all the while . |
15 | Its long-term prospects as far as mass marketing is concerned are still uncertain and will depend upon the ability of airlines to keep their prices down and upon relative exchange rate movements , both of which disproportionately affect this sector . |
16 | This is an update on the consultation following the conference which was held in July nineteen ninety two I think , yes , erm and basically seeking the committee 's approval to have a follow up conference this July in the centre in and to all members of the Council to attend as erm for approved as approved duties . |
17 | However , the truth will out and in each of the 72 National Bus Company sell-offs those who keep an eye on the industry were in a strong position to find out what was paid . |
18 | We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . " |
19 | Yes and put a bit of fertilizer on and on one side , I think that side , you see , they have n't come back as well . |
20 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
21 | Now come on and no more lip , an' get your clothes off and into that bed , 'cos there 's things I 've got to do before I sleep tonight . ’ |
22 | Yeah so when people are saying , Well simple harmonic motion or erm you know throwing a stone up and down that sort of thing roughly is n't it sort of one of them goes up and down a lot like that one of them just goes up once and down same equation . |
23 | The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation . |
24 | She saw it once and not again although she watched the spot off and on all day . |
25 | I wrote off to Time Out and in early February 1981 found myself surrounded by eight or nine other blind socialists discussing the formation of the Alternative Talking Newspapers Collective . |
26 | Then they would bring their talons forward and reach their beaks out and in one swift movement crash them on the surface of the still lake , and out of the splashing spray caused by their wings as they beat to gain height again they would rise struggling with a fish in their talons . ’ |