Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 2 | His buddy did n't seem too concerned about that and reached down for the big gun . |
| 3 | I can see the reasons for that and went along with my birth certificate , marriage licence and National Insurance card . |
| 4 | I think you should wait for that and do n't make any presumptions about the future of the runway . |
| 5 | But if we can get through that and cut through , I think it does get a lot of interest . |
| 6 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 7 | I tried to think about this but did n't succeed . |
| 8 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 9 | She added : ‘ We have had so many inquiries about this and have carefully verified it and we want to set their minds at rest . ’ |
| 10 | ( They will already have curled their lip at a book such as this and moved on . ) |
| 11 | There is no doubt that conditions in these towns , particularly in the first half of the nineteenth century , were dreadful but Professor Hoskins seems more anxious to apportion blame for this than to explain why it happened , which is perhaps more important . |
| 12 | The research attempts to uncover reasons for this and puts forward a series of policy recommendations aimed at producing a more random distribution of women in employment . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously , as a Liverpool fan , you have to be worried but I 'm perfectly hopeful that we 'll get through this and come back as the force that we always have been . ’ |
| 14 | After all that had just happened , his apparent lack of emotion was impossible to bear , and a wave of anger washed over her . |
| 15 | The police response to Black women and racist attacks is determined by the same factors which affect their response to racist attacks generally : Failure to recognise racial violence/attacks as such and to act accordingly ; delays in their response to a call for help from victims of racial violence ; refusal to recognise the seriousness of a racist attack , and if arrests are made , only the minimum of charges are imposed ; avoiding responsibility for dealing with cases involving racist attacks — by advising victims to pursue civil action through the courts ; the subjecting of those who are victims of racial violence to further racial abuse ; the criminalisation of victims of racist attacks e.g. in Bradford , Newham and only recently two cases from Hounslow one involving 5 boys from Lampton School who defended themselves in a racial attack and were arrested and charged by the police . |
| 16 | You put two squares of that and stick on to the cone |
| 17 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 18 | Strach is normally the epitomy of that and swarms all over the right back area in and around the box . |
| 19 | Nadirpur saw the wisdom of that and nodded sagely . |
| 20 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 21 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 22 | On Siporax , it is claimed , the bacteria have no need of this and get on with the important job . |
| 23 | She 'd soon had enough of this and yelled out , ‘ I am She-Ra and I will break your balls ! ’ |
| 24 | The proportion of women working in other people 's homes , i.e. in domestic service , was a component of this and fell continuously throughout the century beginning in 1850 . |
| 25 | I thought no way were we going to have half an hour of this and thought why not make our own ? |
| 26 | McLeish decided he was not going to get much more out of this and went on to check , gently , what Francis Morgan had done with the weekend . |
| 27 | Pandarus , who had instructed Troilus — ‘ You must be witty ’ — seems to have infected the lovers with his fondness for dirty jokes ( in him , perhaps , a sign of impotence or disease ) , and seeing him again they are reminded of this and go up to verse for their protestations of love and fidelity ( 113ff . ) . |
| 28 | I never do any of this and have n't any of the underwear either . |
| 29 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 30 | The Town Clerk of Liverpool was quite aware of this and acted accordingly . |