Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could be sensible and stop trying to squeeze the last drop of current from the transformer ! |
| 2 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 3 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 4 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’ |
| 6 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 7 | Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal . |
| 8 | I 've got to get the last train home . |
| 9 | I 've got to , I 've got to admit the second half they were lucky our goalie produced four brilliant saves in about three minutes |
| 10 | Now this is two sixths that we 've use to make the third . |
| 11 | To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) . |
| 12 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 13 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 14 | Because nature abhors a vacuum , we have had to produce the second document for today 's debate — ’ Labour 's Public Expenditure Plans ’ . |
| 15 | PUB regulars have helped fulfil the last wishes of a friend who died from cancer . |
| 16 | Yet while Iago had to start from scratch , foment hatred , poison sight , and invert reality to set his chosen enemies against each other , all that Goneril and Regan have to do to get a third of Britain is to make the kind of noises Lear expects to hear ; indeed , since Cordelia wo n't flatter , they get her part too , and even her coronet as an unlooked-for bonus , Lear 's only ‘ free gift ’ , to use the language of modern advertising promotions ( ‘ This coronet part between you ’ ( King Lear , 1 . |
| 17 | Around 20 have refused to pay the next instalment . |
| 18 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 19 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 20 | I wonder if his absence is the reason we have failed to win the last two games . |
| 21 | If you have chosen to bear the first £50 of claims , you will find that renewal is offered on the basis of a £100 excess for all claims , ( except Subsidence for which the excess is unaltered ) . |
| 22 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 23 | The implementation of Council Tax has gone reasonably successfully to date and we have managed to process the first stage of recovery , that is Reminders , at the end of May 1993 . |