Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 2 | This has developed rapidly since James Watson and Francis Crick broke the genetic code in 1962 by uncovering the structure of DNA and has opened up not only abstract genetic knowledge but the manipulation of genes and the basis of life itself . |
| 3 | The Second Division club fear they will be allotted 17,800 tickets if Liverpool overcome Portsmouth at Villa Park , though they expect to receive more if Portsmouth reach the final . |
| 4 | Our standard of living has grown faster than Italy , Sweden and Switzerland . |
| 5 | About the fact that , under Conservative , our productivity has grown faster than Japans ' . |
| 6 | Repp ( 1977 ) has argued similarly but Richardson ( 1976 ) considers choice of the " f " index to be as arbitrary as any other . |
| 7 | One senior State Department official has said privately that West European countries treat East European ones with ‘ contempt ’ . |
| 8 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 9 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 10 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 11 | It is a matter of fact that over the past 12 months , Hinkley B has out-performed Hunterston B and Heysham 2 has performed better than Torness . |
| 12 | ‘ The levelling out of investment is worrying because it needs to grow so that UK industry can keep up with international competitors , ’ Mr Sentance said . |
| 13 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 14 | He dropped to his knees and tried to scramble away but Julie hit him again , kicking him hard in the ribs as he fell to the ground . |
| 15 | Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon . |
| 16 | ‘ This is the first time anything unusual has happened here since Goering occupied the building in 1940 , ’ one veteran observer was heard to remark . |
| 17 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 18 | It was topical , entertaining and ephemeral — so ephemeral that it has survived long after Krenek 's excruciatingly boring serious works are forgotten . |
| 19 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 20 | The rural culture of New South Wales has changed dramatically since Mr Murray was a boy , but he harbours no easy nostalgia for the ways of the past . |
| 21 | The Conservatives ' position has improved considerably since Mr Major became Prime Minister but they were actually better placed relative to Labour when they lost to Harold Wilson in 1964. 1964AprilNow 1990 Conservatives best 45 35 45 Labour best 34 46 38 Tory advantage+1111 +7 |
| 22 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 23 | ‘ No meaning ’ atheists tend to talk rather as A.J. Ayer talks in Language , Truth and Logic , as if there is no possibility of a Deity existing because there is no possibility of making sense of the word ‘ God ’ : |
| 24 | Jackie seemed to float upwards and Sam stubbed his toe . |
| 25 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 26 | She 'd said then that Alice must have it . |
| 27 | Also Ive read somewhere that Wilko is waiting for Oldham to put a realistic price on jobsons head … the 2million ( cash plus hodge deal ) being the upper limit . |
| 28 | In the passageway Nogai seemed to stumble again and Jotan leapt forward . |
| 29 | He seemed to recover considerably after Paheri left home . |
| 30 | The opportunities and indeed the pressures for people to fiddle vary widely and Mars suggests a number of ‘ fiddle-prone ’ factors attached to particular occupations . |