Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterns of dots from a painting program tend to fall apart when enlarged or coagulate into muddy puddles if reduced . |
| 2 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 3 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 4 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 5 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 6 | The children are taught to go home and tell their parents to put out their cigarettes . |
| 7 | Or do you want to sit there and ruminate a bit while while you have a look see what you 've got ? |
| 8 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 9 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 10 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 11 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 12 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 13 | That 's a really fine line right there because some bands tend to come across as doing a speed metal/jazz fusion . |
| 14 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 15 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 16 | … not particularly comforting , since many of the goals which we as a nation set ourselves , the policies which we pursue and the material objectives to which we attach importance tend to increase rather than to diminish the incidence of crime . |
| 17 | Shiftworkers lose sleep progressively while working the night or morning shifts , and may be employed in nursing , in controlling power stations or chemical plants , as well as in manufacturing industries . |
| 18 | ‘ They wo n't want to come here and get whacked again , so we have to be ready , ’ said Souness . |
| 19 | I do n't want to come there and find I have nothing to do . ’ |
| 20 | our estimate for price elasticity is four and one to nought point eight minus one is one point eight , notice though that its ratio has jumped considerably or has doubled and the dummy variable itself is very significant the T ratio ten the coefficient on that dummy variable tells us the effect of the war on textile consumption , right so on average textile consumption rose by point two er see what the units of measurement are we do n't actually have units of er ah so we 'll |
| 21 | Want to go upstairs and sit down ? |
| 22 | Your feet get hot in your bloody shoes and you want to go outside and walk through mud . ’ |
| 23 | When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road . |
| 24 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 25 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 26 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 27 | Once the series of movements has been learned , the student is expected to go away and practise it day after day until he can execute each technique flawlessly and without thinking . |
| 28 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 29 | I stopped knitting again and stared . |
| 30 | It was designed to uphold rather than undermine older aspects of Japanese society . |