Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing as much , my friends , who sit or stand with me under the tree , stare out to sea in silence . |
| 2 | Commission-paid salesmen sit or stand at their telephones calling punters and reading aloud their sales pitch : a sheet of paper on which is scrawled details of their investment proposition . |
| 3 | During the day the bed is moved into the shade of the arcades around the courtyard where you sit or lie upon it outside your door , and catch whatever breeze is going . |
| 4 | I can do one thing in the light , and that 's send and treat for him in open negotiation . |
| 5 | He felt silence descend and press on him . |
| 6 | Now , let's go back to what and say and look at it from offspring A's point of view . |
| 7 | In Sailors Three ( 1940 , Three Cockeyed Sailors in US ) , Tommy Trinder and his companions get drunk and end up on a German ship which , more by mishap than demon cunning , they occupy and deliver to their commander . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't wait long to have you warm and clinging in my arms — and mine ! ’ |
| 9 | Watching them grow and turn into whatever they become . |
| 10 | ( Aims and methods ) In early childhood , children grow and learn within their families and the importance of the family as a context for child development has received much attention . |
| 11 | We have heard of waterless embalming , well , who in the name of goodness has ever done it ? — or is that a ploy for producers to sell more fluid or that in , for example , 16 oz they will use 3 or 4 types of fluid which interact and work as one . |
| 12 | On thawing , live cells rehydrate and return to their original shape ; damaged ones fail to recover and die . |
| 13 | This is when agape love takes over and with our will we continue to show forth acts of love , doing what is best for our partner whether they deserve or respond to it or not . |
| 14 | To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance . |
| 15 | Telephone or write to me . |
| 16 | Big'uns are not affected by Goblins that break or flee past them , in the same way as other Orcs . |
| 17 | The spectators smoke and laugh among themselves : near the doorway a youth records the drumming on a cassette recorder emblazoned with a Rolling Stones decal . |
| 18 | The ex-soldier stared up at Braden , the cords in his neck standing out , his hands spread and clamped on his knees . |
| 19 | Listen and do as you are told and you 'll never regret it . |
| 20 | listen and look at it |
| 21 | When I do , I wink and smile at her . |
| 22 | Sharp leaves and thorns cut and tore at his arms and ripped his cheeks . |
| 23 | The 340 hourly-paid workers would not accept a wages freeze and cuts in their benefits and were sacked . |
| 24 | It 's really difficult for me to measure these sorts of things , but if you stop and look at him , he must have been in pain . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , what 's the window for but for the bairns at Christmas , because the grown-ups rarely stop and look at it . ’ |
| 26 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 27 | So you set your time limit , right we 'll have say twenty minutes , half an hour at the most , then you stop and look at it , and say anybody want to add anything else . |
| 28 | They stop and bow to him . |
| 29 | Stop and think about your body . |
| 30 | I mean it is wrong and I do n't think people realize just how wrong it is until they really stop and think about it . |