Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 2 | The plan goes on to set out points made in a social work committee report submitted in 1975 , dealing with the likely effects of the arrival of a large number of permanent immigrants . |
| 3 | In moments of despair you hit hope on the head with a hammer , but she goes on breathing in dark , safe spaces , echoes and cobwebs/tatters of past desire , spent and perfect , swim through time towards you , reminding you of what was but is no more/splinters in the flesh/tiny mouths open and close and never get fed — not even scraps — nothing at all . |
| 4 | Speaking of exploitation , students of the genre might care to consider Trapper County War ( Guild ) , an archetypal example of the backwoods nightmare , set in one of those supposed hillbilly communities where the locals , when not spitting out tobacco or imprecations , are banding together to hunt down interlopers and blast them to bits . |
| 5 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 6 | Her heart going like a trip-hammer , Fabia fought valiantly to hold down panic . |
| 7 | His father Mr Keith Worby said tonight : The people I blame are the ones who get young people to go along to make up numbers . |
| 8 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 9 | Mordecai has only carried out instructions . |
| 10 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 11 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 12 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 13 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 14 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 15 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 16 | Hotpoint overtime ban over pay freeze |
| 17 | A newly created ethical committee is to meet soon to draw up guidelines for WWF International 's investment committee , which is likely to agree to a large-scale transfer of funds . |
| 18 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 19 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |
| 20 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 21 | But Mr Kelly has not given up hope . |
| 22 | Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races . |
| 23 | He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’ |
| 24 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |
| 25 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 26 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 27 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 28 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 29 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 30 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |