Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too !
2 We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too !
3 Battle back to top starts here
4 So we tend not to understand horses very well .
5 The procedure will involve photo-copying at two stages and cut out typing forms both for Sheriff Clerks and Local Secretaries .
6 We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries .
7 All I want to do is read Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals instead of cleaning the oven , then pop over to see Tony now and again .
8 ‘ I give up lifting years ago , Mr Kelly , you should know that . ’
9 legal er situation at all then you know just ask questions here you get free legal advice which ca n't be bad .
10 When it 's a do-it-yourself job , remember always to cut nails straight across .
11 The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at .
12 I know how to spell Wednesday anyway
13 Whitlow again finding Thomson now Agnew Pearce up well and Agnew on to it again Lewis Oldfield comes into the game Thomson .
14 The sceptic , it is argued , may well concede that the conceptual scheme that we use and rely on makes sense only if we posit the possibility of re-identifiable particulars , while at the same time insisting that no proof can be supplied of their actual existence .
15 Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all .
16 Tavalouze again pushed Lucien further into the room .
17 I keep on having thoughts today .
18 In handling these problems , the executives use highly honed skills yet create consequences they do not intend .
19 Try not to hang things too close , too high , or too far apart .
20 I think that in life you have to discover what you 're good at , recognise what you ca n't do , decide what you want , aim for it , and try not to regret things afterwards .
21 Try not to skip breakfast completely .
22 Athelstan concluded it was due to the large empty wine bowl in front of Sir John but Cranston , winking and burping , staunchly kept his hidden resolve not to vex Athelstan further with his own worries and anxieties .
23 Lynch ungraciously dropped Wilson early in 1936 before losing his first fight in two and a half years , a non-title match in Belfast .
24 Over-permissive parents attempt always to use reason instead of overt authority to accomplish their goals .
25 The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie .
26 Yes , we 've all seen all the reports — distributed open systems end up costing downsizers more money than the mainframe ever did , that there are many applications that can be handled only by the mainframe , that the mainframe has a bright future if only IBM Corp can get over its present problems .
27 Here we might note that they are also not in Edinburgh : we know this for B because B claims to have to go to Edinburgh , and go here means movement away from the place of the speaker at the time of speaking ; we know it for A also , because if A is in Edinburgh , then B's having to go to Edinburgh can hardly be an excuse for B not going to A today .
28 How nice it was to reassure Jeanne and John to follow their own judgement and instincts and carry on socialising Moby as much as possible — with a little proper help from Jenny .
29 ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well .
30 The CRE investigation , its first against any named council or organisation in Scotland since it was set up in 1976 , will focus on alleged breaches of race relations and employment laws for failing to provide for children who do not speak English fluently and for failing fully to involve their parents .
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