Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 2 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 3 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 4 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 5 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 6 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 7 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 8 | ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework . |
| 9 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 10 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 11 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 12 | Why would she want to go with this man ? |
| 13 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 14 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
| 15 | I 'd like you to tell your story to a couple of my colleagues and they may want to go into greater detail . |
| 16 | I do n't want to go into great detail , but I would be happy to make reference to the document . |
| 17 | I do not want to go into that argument ; I simply wish to illustrate my point . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry about that , it really is more of a second thought , although I do n't want to go into any detail and I 'd like , like any broad that you have to be in my mind in this case at least |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't want to go through that business we had with A&M . |
| 20 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | Harold Samuel was furious , ‘ What do you want to go to that place for ? |
| 22 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
| 23 | ‘ Do we really want to go to this bash ? ’ |
| 24 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 25 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 26 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 27 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 28 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 29 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 30 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |