Example sentences of "[verb] and [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I thought if I er But I was beginning to get a bit worried so I thought well I might as well go up because I shall start to worry and things get out of proportion with me you see ? |
| 2 | We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries . |
| 3 | As long as Germany 's long-term interest rates sank and currencies dropped out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) like ripe fruit , the deficit could be ignored . |
| 4 | It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism . |
| 5 | Often local wells would become polluted from sewage tanks , leading to outbreaks , and sometimes as happened in Upper Halling , homes were evacuated and wells sealed off . |
| 6 | Colours were then applied and copies taken off . |
| 7 | From the mid-'80s , retailing and agencies threw up new players . |
| 8 | There were parts I would not have selected and others left out that I would have included , but as the whole thing had to be condensed into twenty minutes , I was reasonably pleased with it . |
| 9 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 10 | The common holly , Ilex aquifolium , shares an almost symbiotic relationship with rowan , providing an extra amenity as a secure nesting and roosting place , and supplying ample berries in bleak mid-winter for both fieldfares and redwings to feed on . |
| 11 | It defines a way for applications on networked machines to pass information between themselves , and copes with one of the fundamental problems with distributed systems : namely that networks break and machines go down . |
| 12 | Not much profit came from these transactions but friends were made and contacts kept up that were to prove useful in the peace . |
| 13 | In the grounds , beer tents had been erected and caterers brought in to provide coffee , snacks , lunches and other light refreshments . |
| 14 | Dinner is also the time when schedules are arranged and days planned out . |
| 15 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 16 | Pandemonium reigned , guns were firing and grenades going off . |
| 17 | But nothing of that sort happened and matters went on as before . |
| 18 | Body bags were being zipped and trolleys shuttled back and forth . |
| 19 | And lots of lean-to teashops with their sticky mud floors , mud walls with greasy pictures of gods and film stars ; the hole in the ground at the back where plates and glasses were washed and mouths swilled out ; grimy tables with uneven legs ; ants and wasps crawling around on the food displayed in front of the shop . |
| 20 | Her mother sat by the fire , her knitting lying in her lap , eyes closed and spectacles slipped down her nose . |
| 21 | A pheasant squawked and birds burst out of the trees . |
| 22 | He detailed his expenses , listed work accomplished and projects lined up . |
| 23 | As library users have found to their cost , the shelf that held the books marked 636.7 last week might hold books quite differently numbered today , as the stock grows and books move along , and yet the position of a subject 's bookstock can rapidly be found once the all.important subject number is identified from the index . |
| 24 | Everywhere the willow grows and dragonflies hover over the wide ditches or rhymes . |
| 25 | So I find that coloureds and whites get on alright anyway . |
| 26 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 27 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 28 | The door opened and Ludens came in . |
| 29 | So he adopts a humorous ape-like shamble , knees bent and feet turned out . |
| 30 | There was a sound of soft footsteps , of chains being loosened and bolts drawn back . |