Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
| 2 | Cash in comes from your deposit book and cash out comes from your cheque book . |
| 3 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 4 | Industry critics further point out that the EIUG 's worries last year about sharp price increases did n't materialise , and such international price comparisons as there are provide little support for its case . |
| 5 | Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances . |
| 6 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 7 | But stations particularly unstaffed appear not to fall within its remit . |
| 8 | This ungiving endurance is admired by working-class boys who grow up to write about their mothers ' flinty courage . |
| 9 | ‘ 'Would n't go on my own , would I ? ’ |
| 10 | Or persuade or influence , or as I say even vote with their pocket books . |
| 11 | Fly here to stand by my side , sweet lady , for we can further the walls of Christendom on this isle in goodly state . |
| 12 | Beg forgiveness and say please get off my |
| 13 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 14 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
| 15 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 16 | The company notes that the action signals its ability to use early redemption or repurchase programmes as part of continuing efforts to reduce debt and make best use of its cash . |
| 17 | That means we make best use of our resources and offer help to more and more patients . ’ |
| 18 | That means we make best use of our resources and offer help to more and more patients . ’ |
| 19 | Because you 're — mature enough to cope with my get-up-and-go , self-interested philosophy ? ’ |
| 20 | The research councils , and the Science and Engineering and the Medical Research Councils in particular , deserve much praise for their albeit slightly belated efforts to pinpoint growth areas , such as microelectronics , information technology , biotechnology and remote-sensing . |
| 21 | [ Smoke Still Gets in Her Eyes , ASH , 1991 ] . |
| 22 | The boys , one aged just seven , two eight , and the others 11 and 13 , said they found the tablets while out playing near their homes in Huyton , Merseyside , and took one each . |
| 23 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 24 | Paige nimbly rose to her feet . |
| 25 | Even when there are specialist historians , producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards , people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors . |
| 26 | But So far the Serbs seem not to care about their world image so the MP suggests they need to be told in no uncertain terms . |
| 27 | Many immigrant starlings pass through Shetland , particularly during the autumn migration period , but they seem not to mix with our birds — probably they do n't even speak the same language ! |
| 28 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 29 | The Federal government should , Boning thinks , help German scientists broadcast their results more effectively by providing facilities for them to publish in English and travel more to talk about their work and learn new methods . |
| 30 | As we give up concentrating on our selves , our lives begin to reflect more clearly what it means to be human , as God intended us to be . |