Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
| 2 | A wire balloon should be fitted into the top of each downpipe to prevent birds nesting and debris getting down the pipe |
| 3 | It is perhaps less well known that a number of them became ‘ lost ’ as building stone was re-used and land ploughed over . |
| 4 | My heart sank and numbness took over . |
| 5 | He seemed to cause embarrassment to his side of the room , but a sense of doors opening and light coming in to mine ( p. 41 ) . |
| 6 | It would be an enormous relief — and if you 're waiting for me to struggle , demand you release me , you can wait till hell freezes over , Feargal McMahon , because I would n't give you the satisfaction ! ’ |
| 7 | You 'll wait till hell freezes over , because I am not — ’ |
| 8 | TENANTS were evacuated when fire broke out in a block of Stockton flats . |
| 9 | But , and secondly , what counts as rationality takes on much more subtle hues . |
| 10 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ I believe it 's a kind of beer — but how many people must have been strengthened and comforted by seeing that message shining out into the night . ’ |
| 12 | And indeed we 're seeing that work coming through at the moment . |
| 13 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 14 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 15 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 16 | In an event of 16 December 1991 , data from the Bragg spectrometer and the Hard X-ray Telescope ( HXT ) show that plasma flows up following the impulsive deposition of joules in the chromosphere by non-thermal electrons ( , Tokyo University ) . |
| 17 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 18 | These can create even more stress on the individuals left with the burden , especially in the credit control department , where targets have to be met and cash pulled in by certain deadlines . |
| 19 | A lot of pushing and shoving went on and I panicked a bit , so Uncle picked me up in his arms to protect me and calm me down . |
| 20 | One wild evening , when the wind was howling and rain lashing down , I took Peter Brewer , a Somerset bank manager up to the loch , much against his better judgment . |
| 21 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 22 | The initial sums were often quite modest as football clubs tend to grow gradually , first drawing crowds on a casual basis and then fencing in a field and charging admission ; from this point a wooden stand might be built and earth piled up into which steps could be cut . |
| 23 | These off-road vans are equipped as ‘ garages on wheels ’ to reach and repair broken down vehicles , enabling anti-poaching patrols to stay mobile . |
| 24 | 200 students paid 2 pounds each to hear the Foreign Secretary talk about what he calls the soul searching and introspection going on around the world . |
| 25 | Does n't matter if yellow goes off . |
| 26 | The real test is what happens as output picks up . |
| 27 | Where will the dollar head when peace breaks out ? |
| 28 | This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads . |
| 29 | She was white and trembling when Marguerite walked back into the room , looking quite alarmed when her eyes fell on Jenna 's pale face . |
| 30 | Elderly residents moved as Board closes down home |