Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 3 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 4 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 5 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 6 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 7 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 8 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 9 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 10 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 11 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 12 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new . |
| 14 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 15 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 16 | Boston The list goes on until we get to a total of a hundred and thirty million . |
| 17 | This process goes on until you have about half a teacupful of ravel left . |
| 18 | And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy . |
| 19 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 20 | Then suddenly , he came to a decision , and plunged on before he had time to reconsider it |
| 21 | We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us . |
| 22 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 23 | Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off . |
| 24 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 25 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 26 | ‘ 'T IS really nought , ’ she whispered nervously as he reached her and held out his hand . |
| 27 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Girdlestone has agreed to let you stay on while I try to find somewhere near where I live . |
| 29 | Anyone can stay on if they want ca n't they ? |
| 30 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |