Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 2 | She scrutinised a dilapidated man on the pavement outside who was passing from rubbish bin to rubbish bin , rustling around inside and placing everything of interest in a plastic bag . |
| 3 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 4 | You have to admire the ones with the guts to go it alone and make something of their lives when times are hard , even if the ways they do so are not strictly legal . |
| 5 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 6 | Three young men from Hartwell , John Charles Kingston , Felix Smith and Bill Spriggs , unable to afford a bicycle each , clubbed together and bought one between them . |
| 7 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 8 | Herbaceous borders or mixed borders , or even the island beds of herbaceous perennials which make an interesting alternative , are a standard feature in many gardens , but few garden-owners take the word " herbaceous " literally and grow nothing but herbs in their beds or borders . |
| 9 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 10 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 11 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 12 | Then they ran outside and carried everything into the kitchen — their chickens , their fishing things . |
| 13 | The boffins down at War-U-Like have invented a new toy ; a high-powered supa-dupa combat aircraft that can outfly and outblast anything in the air , and make a bigger noise doing it . |
| 14 | Cook tells me he 'd seen it somewhere and wanted one for his wife . |
| 15 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 16 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 17 | The former Today owner said he had seen documentation from Scottish financial institutions which put Knighton 's personal net worth at ‘ around £3m ’ , and added : ‘ I think he should now step aside and let somebody in who has the interests of the club at heart . ’ |
| 18 | You come home and find one inside five days . ’ |
| 19 | Once installed FAXgrabber can be configured to monitor fax activity automatically and to convert everything to text as soon as it arrives . |
| 20 | He turned slightly and said something to her . |
| 21 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 22 | An ergonomically designed cockpit was devised labelling everything clearly and putting everything within easy reach . |
| 23 | Swod stared at her impassively and said nothing for moment . |
| 24 | ‘ Would n't it buy something for the girls here or put someone through school even if you did n't want to take it for yourself ? |
| 25 | While Scotland 's forwards have battled hard and bravely and produced plenty of ball all season , the back division have been left far behind in talent and imagination . |
| 26 | We could go out tomorrow and get one in the market . " |
| 27 | Professor Barrie Wilson , Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University , who has been one of those most closely involved with implementing recent management changes , says staff are still mainly concerned with teaching well and doing lots of research . |
| 28 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 29 | Ornamental grasses also featured here and became something of a talking point , especially Carex comans ‘ Bronze Form ’ . |
| 30 | You come down here and treat everybody like shit . ’ |