Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 3 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 4 | Mix well , then bind together with a little beaten egg . |
| 5 | Guests eat together around an elegantly decorated table and the atmosphere is very much that of a dinner party between friends . |
| 6 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 7 | There are those who grow up in a very rigid and often fiercely religious environment , crushed into a mould , dictated by unbending rules and regulations , where little demonstrative love is shown . |
| 8 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 9 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 10 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 11 | The padre goes with them as they leap out into a very boggy field . |
| 12 | The high amplitude contractions travel over relatively long segments of the colon and appear consecutively in the more distal bowel , suggesting that this activity is coordinated and propulsive . |
| 13 | There was a direct connection with the shipyards , not only in terms of orders by British owners ( who now build abroad to a far greater extent than any other non-flag of convenience maritime nation ) , but through the training of engineering officers who traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards or engine works before going to sea . |
| 14 | Suggested explanations for this pattern of results focus predominantly on the highly polysemous nature of the English language . |
| 15 | They bring plenty of energy to the quick outer movements and rightly relax somewhat in the more lyrical passages ( repeats are observed , too ) . |
| 16 | We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway . |
| 17 | Nocturnal spiders , on the other hand , depend largely on an extremely delicate sense of touch to find their prey . |
| 18 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 19 | TELEVISION viewers in the south may soon be seeing advertisements for undertakers , as funeral directors gear up for an increasingly competitive and high-profile market . |
| 20 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 21 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 22 | They note that the molecular hydrogen emission reveals long tail-like structures which project back to a more or less common origin in the vicinity of well-known stellar residents of the Orion molecular cloud ( see cover photo ) . |
| 23 | Simply crafted out of dreamy space-flavoured blips and acidic sub-plots , with three New York-ish house choons cut out in a uniquely teutonic fashion on the other side . |
| 24 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 25 | I hope to have established the point that it is not necessary to adopt the apocalyptic views of events put forward by the more sombre critics , nor to deserve the dismissive label ‘ puritanical ’ in order to believe that there are very good reasons why parents have to enforce rules . |
| 26 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 27 | Others manage better in a more spontaneous fashion . |
| 28 | However , the MacSharry proposals look only in the most narrow , blinkered way for solutions . |
| 29 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 30 | C and D coexist indefinitely in a chaotically shifting balance , with the frequency of C being ( almost ) completely independent of the initial conditions at 0.318 . |