Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had stopped raining but the wood was sopping . |
| 2 | It had stopped raining but the night was dark and damp . |
| 3 | On a simple view , the Treasury , as a government department , formulates the financial policy which it wishes to see pursued and the Bank of England decides upon the appropriate technical means of carrying out that policy and is responsible for putting it into effect . |
| 4 | The call was given to launch and the Mitchells , one by one , moved forward on the ‘ deck ’ , opened the throttles , held the aircraft on the brakes and were flagged-off by ‘ flyco ’ . |
| 5 | The concept of London and the machine revolved round two problems : journeying to work and the obsession with the notion of through traffic from West London via the centre to the docks . |
| 6 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 7 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 8 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |
| 9 | This perspective puts mathematics educators in a very comfortable position , until we recognise that it is not uncontentious and , in any case , is rarely made explicit to children , which would involve them in a detailed consideration of how mathematics has developed and the relations between abstract mathematics and reality . |
| 10 | Nearly 50 years later the language has altered but the substance looks strikingly familiar . |
| 11 | Cook gently , uncovered , stirring from time to time , for about half an hour , until most of the moisture has evaporated and the tomatoes are in a pulp . |
| 12 | Milhaez stopped singing and the captain went forward in the bow to stand as look-out . |
| 13 | Now the oil price has fallen and the business has collapsed . |
| 14 | This shows that the number of farms has fallen by 14% ; the number in the smaller size bracket generally ( under 30 hectares ) has fallen and the number in the larger size brackets risen . |
| 15 | I say borrow but the cash was never refunded and I expect Dad thought it was a cheap way to get rid of him . |
| 16 | You can decide how much you want to borrow and the repayment period that suits you best . |
| 17 | Walking the river in the close season , when the bankside and aquatic vegetation has blossomed and the water is running clear and low , is the best time for actually spotting the chub as they go about their daily business . |
| 18 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 19 | Some 150 communicators are expected to attend and the theme will be ‘ Christians in a Media Culture ’ . |
| 20 | Like international directory enquiries for telephone numbers it desperately needs administering and the US government has recently appointed AT&T to do just that . |
| 21 | Two examples illustrate some of the dilemmas the strategy has exposed and the policies initiated to deal with them . |
| 22 | Investment in local authority housing has collapsed and no help is available to the private rented sector . |
| 23 | The road from the town that goes east towards Drangajökull has collapsed and no buses or lorries can get through . |
| 24 | Since then the luxury car market has collapsed and the speculators want out . |
| 25 | Willie Baxter was gripped by fear , he did n't understand it , he hated the dark tunnels , he stopped walking and the noise stopped ; by now Willie was probably near the point where the tunnels passed under the River Clyde and it was said that it was possible to hear the sound of a ship 's propeller whenever a vessel passed overhead . |
| 26 | An engineer 's report states that the foundations are defective and that the house will need underpinning and the foundations repaired . |
| 27 | To invoke the program you first start the application from which you wish to print , open up the relevant file , and then press shift and the print screen key . |
| 28 | Former Chief Justice Bhagwati summed up the situation succinctly : ’ The multinational has won and the people of India have lost . ’ |
| 29 | Always save your file before you sort it and be careful to include in the Data Range all the rows and columns that you want to sort but no others . |
| 30 | In recent years , Botswana 's manufacturing industry has grown and the country produces soap , dairy produce , hides and bonemeal . |