Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile .
2 He could feel his heart thudding furiously and hoped desperately that he 'd succeeded in making his voice sound casual .
3 They must be careful not to make income support too generous , thus causing the taxpayer to lose out and causing funds to be taken from other provision for the elderly and disabled .
4 Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland .
5 Just then she spotted a loose thread hanging down and catapulted forward .
6 So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ?
7 But the pensioner got up and fought back , police said .
8 Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then
9 The blacksmith straightened up and looked at her .
10 Honor straightened up and mopped her eyes .
11 Even when behind , the Maltese show no willingness to go forward and make a game of it .
12 To me it 's a crock of shit to go out and harmonize with nature on my resin polyurethane surfboard . ’
13 I 've only got quarter an hour to go down and have a smoke .
14 So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese .
15 has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities .
16 Radio Tanzania on Sept. 18 cited Diria as saying that both sides were being given the opportunity to go home and clarify their positions .
17 Well that 's why I did it because I do n't often get the opportunity to go out and enjoy myself like that .
18 He knew that I would never let him marry her , and , besides , he has a girlfriend of his own , so when I offered him money to go away and leave her alone he stood me off as much as he dared , and collected a big enough stake to marry his girl and start a small business , which , he kindly informed me when he left , he intends to turn into a large one , one day . ’
19 Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great
20 But though Minton , in turn , often treated him like a mere house-boy , giving him money to go off and buy the food which he afterwards cooked , Ricky carried out his duties with considerable charm .
21 There is a similar air of gloom in a conversation which Ronald Duncan has recorded ; Duncan suggested that he might use some of the prize money to go abroad and escape from the London winter .
22 ‘ We have n't got the money to go out and buy the clothes , ’ Guy states , ‘ to take us to the next stage of achievement .
23 I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] .
24 No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the .
25 ’ Well , you have my permission to go ahead and distribute it this morning .
26 Second , it gives our staff excellent experience to go abroad and broaden their horizons … people are less likely to complain about working conditions here when they 've seen with their own eyes what conditions are like abroad .
27 I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it .
28 I ATTENDED a very up-market company dinner and after the meal the chairman got up and said , ‘ I hope you have all enjoyed the Thermal Lobsterdor this evening . ’
29 Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent .
30 In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin .
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