Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to Descartes . |
| 2 | The story goes back to Mnaseas , a writer of the second half of the second century B.C. ( c . |
| 3 | For a moment or two , the men hauled on Gabriel like a soul on the Day of Judgement fought over by angels and devils . |
| 4 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 5 | Stress-free Duchess goes back to work |
| 6 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 7 | There will be a growing need for experienced businesspeople to go back to school . |
| 8 | ‘ Mornin' , Olga , ’ she shouted as she scuttled towards her , a pair of rollers in the front of her hair sticking out like devil 's horns from under her woollen hat . |
| 9 | The Daily Sketch goes out of business , May 1971 . |
| 10 | The story got back to England , as a result of which Lake was court- martialled and dismissed the Navy . |
| 11 | Our sympathy goes out to Peggy in her great loss . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want the cheque made out for cash ? ’ |
| 13 | Please enclose a cheque made out to Beverley Borough Council . |
| 14 | Your mum drives down to Ipswich . |
| 15 | At least , she thought as the taxi carried her to the astrologer 's home , she had not had the ordeal of having to explain her bizarre decision to go out to Piers . |
| 16 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 17 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 18 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 19 | Breeze was rather glad of the excuse to go out without Susan , because she could take this opportunity of returning Roger Kenyon 's wallet . |
| 20 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 21 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 22 | We used to chat a lot as we rested during the frequent route marches out of camp at Southampton . |
| 23 | The main base made up of volunteers from the local wards like nurses and well I mean nurses and auxiliaries like that . |
| 24 | Street verité rubs up against fashion , and interleaved among some impressively fat advertising are columns of tittle-tattle , industry news and those inevitable lists . |
| 25 | Tensions ahead of the referendum boiled over on Aug. 17 . |
| 26 | The Community of Madonna House expressed their willingness to go out to parishes and help with prayer or study groups if requested . |
| 27 | But as far as this security expert is concerned , unless Oxford University tightens up on security , and fast , more of its treasures will inevitably be stolen . |
| 28 | Navratilova signs up with Lotto |
| 29 | Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536 . |
| 30 | They later came to argue that class struggle goes on in state institutions ( Althusser , 1976 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ) . |