Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 3 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 4 | The fungus Verticillium lecanii was developed commercially from work at Littlehampton . |
| 5 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 6 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 7 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 8 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 9 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 10 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 11 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 12 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 13 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 14 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 15 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 16 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 17 | Opinion differs widely on value of these methods . |
| 18 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 19 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 20 | The road goes on amid scenery of increasing charm along the bonny banks of the loch , which at its head is succeeded by the emerald pastures and rich woodlands of Strath More . |
| 21 | ( This work goes on in parallel with in vivo studies . ) |
| 22 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 23 | Work by Peter Collett , an Oxford academic , has shown clearly that what goes on in front of the telly is , in practice , virtually anything . |
| 24 | That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on . |
| 25 | The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want . |
| 26 | One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime . |
| 27 | Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) . |
| 28 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 29 | But , just the same , Cara had fallen wholeheartedly in love with him , and a year ago she had married him . |
| 30 | After the elections charges were levelled that the federal government had intervened secretly on behalf of USNO in an attempt to undermine Kitangan . |