Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 2 | For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life . |
| 3 | To continue descend from the shoulder , on well-defined path with wall on left ; where wall bends right , keep right alongside it , and soon ignore a stile on left . |
| 4 | Erm do you have to be registered say with the council at that address ? |
| 5 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 6 | It helped bring to the premiership Pierre Mendès-France , a member of the influential Radical Party and a man of energy who commanded considerable personal loyalty . |
| 7 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 8 | They say speak after the beep , beep . |
| 9 | They suffer from fatigue , they hear of housewives being stressed , and they say look at the stress of housework . |
| 10 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 11 | Pressing ABORT from the log on page will take the user back to VMS . |
| 12 | Mr. Butler : How does that fall compare with the fall in England ? |
| 13 | Did n't even go , bother go to the toilet ! |
| 14 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 15 | It 's not something I want broadcast to the world . ’ |
| 16 | Say buy to the lady . |
| 17 | Tap Enter at the end of the last paragraph to have the new format |
| 18 | Tap Enter at the end of the text which will precede the inset text . |
| 19 | Nasty gases and smoke disperse into the ether ; sewage eventually floats out to sea . |
| 20 | You 've turned doggy-do into a song ? |
| 21 | To investigate this pattern , the researchers transferred fry in the study stream to 25 pairs and , sure enough , only fry the same size or smaller than the pairs ' own offspring were accepted into the fold , while larger fry were eaten or driven away . |
| 22 | stop stop at the line stop behind the line |
| 23 | Those actually selected depend on the type of price . |
| 24 | Just before serving remove from the heat and stir in the yoghurt . |
| 25 | Wait wait wait down the side . |
| 26 | Let let through the door . |
| 27 | There were tears in the eyes … a mixture of pride and fear in the faces as the good ship Dodo 's Delight prepared to set sail for the rest of the world … |
| 28 | This gives better support at the edges but is more likely to cause wear on the mattress . |
| 29 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |
| 30 | It can treat classes of related terms in the same way as it treats strong and weak stems : include them all , but ensure that co-occurrences of related terms in a record do not contribute multiply to the weight of the record . |