Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well you know what he did , on Monday morning he was in the garage when he suddenly made up his mind to com to walk across to the paper shop to get a paper and he had n't got er a jacket or any thing on , all he got on was a pull over |
| 2 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 3 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 4 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 5 | All she had to go on was a name , a place of birth , the suggestion of an address . |
| 6 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 7 | One piece of equipment the Dome has n't had to invest in is a blast chiller since most food is taken from the refrigerator , cooked and served immediately . |
| 8 | The track I was parked on was a back way into the village of Broughton Street and , as the crow flew , a quicker way than coming around by Blackberry Hill . |
| 9 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 10 | Most of the work they send in is a bit too obvious . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The way our supporters have been let down is a disgrace . |
| 12 | A rung down are the expatriates hired by Japanese companies , who inhabit an eerie social no-man's-land . |
| 13 | The signal that is picked up is the difference in potential between the two electrode positions . |
| 14 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 15 | So I do n't think the George Street solution that they 're trying to work up is a solution at all . |
| 16 | One Character in this chapter which really stands out is the Queen of Hearts . |
| 17 | But what stands out is the price of progress . |
| 18 | What I should like to find out is the effect of an intenser blue in the sky . |
| 19 | Clustered around are a host of smaller archipelagoes and islands . |
| 20 | The one thing you ca n't quibble about is the voice . |
| 21 | Then , all you will have to worry about is the width of your trouser legs . |
| 22 | A Royal source said : ‘ It is quite lucky really that the only thing to worry about are the weekend breaks and holidays from school . |
| 23 | There may be an element of revolutionary wishful thinking here : if all the system had to worry about was the minority of people who seriously call for the abolition of prisons or the prospect of the imminent overthrow of capitalism there would not be much of a crisis . |
| 24 | In my experience , the only thing Liverpool players ever used to worry about was the game in hand . |
| 25 | The boards she had broken through were an entrance to the cellar . |
| 26 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 27 | Her mother , supported by two Christian Science practitioners , was in another room ‘ knowing the truth ’ and trying to reconcile her hysteria with Mary Baker Eddy 's teaching that passing on is a belief of moral mind . |
| 28 | The second left hander I would bring in is a chap who scored a century against Australia in the Old Trafford Test in 1989 . |
| 29 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |
| 30 | Is he just saying that the place he 's living in is a dump ? |