Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he said to me , he said do n't rush in to stripping that table cos he 's gon na buy a sander to keep his |
| 2 | During the lifetime of this Government the average family the hon. Gentleman talks about has had increases in disposable income of unprecedented levels , in excess of £50 per week , while the hon. Gentleman well knows that from 1974 to 1979 their standard of living bumped along without showing any significant increase . |
| 3 | The only exceptions to the sequential rule are inserts , which can be added in without affecting any of the other material provided that they are of the same length as the material which they are replacing . |
| 4 | Some of the problems associated with old age can be warded off by eating enough of the right foods . |
| 5 | Although the 1977 Royal Commission was forced to acknowledge the shortcomings of the liberal theory of the press based on proprietorial freedom , it drew back from suggesting any departures from the status quo . |
| 6 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 7 | This simple account of cattle-raiding followed by an expedition to punish the thieves explains the situation on frontiers all over the world , and of course these punitive expeditions ( which sometimes took the form of pre-emptive strikes by people who wanted to get their retaliation in first ) were carried out without consulting any central government . |
| 8 | Some work has been carried out towards making this possible . |
| 9 | This organisation chart approach would be carried out by implementing each department 's system in turn . |
| 10 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 11 | In the end the speaker of Homage to Sextus Propertius wins through to articulating that common plight as memorably as Williams 's speaker does — with , as Bunting says , ‘ extraordinary directness … quite naked ’ . |
| 12 | Traditionally , health and social services have muddled along without paying much attention at all to what the recipients of services think , and only now , in the 1990s , are services beginning to consider developing quality assurance and quality-monitoring programmes . |
| 13 | But while the woman , 46-year-old Margaret Presley , of Portsmouth , Hants , was rushed inside — drip-ping with blood from serious head injuries and a broken shoulder — the man drove off without giving any details . |
| 14 | The Palin charm and good humour wash off without leaving any residue for all the 30,000 miles on the clock , and all the pounds on the budget , and Passepartout 's diligent camera , and Roger Mills 's direction . |
| 15 | ‘ So I suppose she wo n't feel up to taking that creature out in the morning . |
| 16 | Are we gon na fight , how we gon na fight , because the local authority people are fed up with doing all the giving . |
| 17 | I expect you get fed up of wearing that boring old toga with the purple stripe round it . |
| 18 | bloody fed up of watching that now ! |
| 19 | Manly-Warringah had earlier missed out on signing All Black no.8 Zinzan Brooke and were desperate to gain Ofahengaue . |
| 20 | When his mind came round to considering this embarrassing enslavement of his macho male self to a mere animal , he felt at a complete loss to understand it . |
| 21 | Well there was erm during the eighties , for instance , there was a lot of talk going on about having some changes within the constitution . |
| 22 | That let the Christmas kitten off the hook — and , thinking back , I remember having swollen glands and feeling a bit run down after eating some very rare lamb at a lunch party we went to around the time I conceived . ’ |
| 23 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 24 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 25 | He deplored the prevailing state of education — " many deaf and dumb children are still allowed to grow up without receiving any education whatever " — , criticised such educational provision as existed and advocated universal state education , the training of specially qualified and adequately remunerated teachers and the adoption of the combined system . |
| 26 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 27 | Three factors stand out in explaining this harmonious relationship . |
| 28 | In the eighties , a secret cabinet committee under William Whitelaw considered further ideas for reform , including joint Lords/Commons committees , and dividing the Lords into voting and non-voting peers , but again they ducked out of taking any action . |
| 29 | There 's a little spin-dryer too , but I have n't got around to using that either . |
| 30 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |