Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | Pre-emptive analgesia may be relevant to the management of chronic pain ; a Danish study showed a reduction of phantom limb pain for up to one year when ischaemic pain was treated effectively with epidural analgesia before amputation . |
| 4 | and goes right to that wall does n't it ? |
| 5 | " Did you know the canal goes right under this house ? " she said . |
| 6 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 7 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
| 8 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 9 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 10 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 11 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 12 | It was not until the following summer that Cadwallon surprised Osric 's forces and slew the Deiran leader , thereafter ravaging widely across Anglian territory and slaying Eanfrith when he came to sue for peace ( HE 111 , 1 ) . |
| 13 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 14 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |
| 15 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 16 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 17 | Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 18 | The persona of ‘ the Watcher ’ , which dominates his best writing , was already being formed : his way forward lay somewhere between social openness and egotistical restlessness . |
| 19 | The Young Socialists were in a state of constant conflict with their elders , and they fought bitterly against any intervention in their political initiatives . |
| 20 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 21 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 22 | The crisis arose eventually over another matter , when Ken exerted successful moral pressure on one of William 's Dutch courtiers to marry the Princess 's maid of honour whom he had seduced . |
| 23 | This bad feeling er lived on into old age . |
| 24 | Lived on into old age . |
| 25 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 26 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 27 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 28 | It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time . |
| 29 | 17.2.2 refers expressly to this agreement and |
| 30 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |