Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I hate to damage your enormous ego , but the last thing I want or need right now is any sort of involvement , as you put it , with a man . |
| 2 | The organisms that prevail — those that are selected for survival — will be those that grow and reproduce most abundantly . |
| 3 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 4 | It 's simple and it means most of my clothes mix and match really well . ’ |
| 5 | At each stage of their individual development , a number of men stop and grow no further because their needs are satisfied . |
| 6 | I only say ‘ YES ’ when I stop and think very carefully about what is programmed in . |
| 7 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 8 | Bring to the boil , then cover and simmer very slowly for 1–1&hr , until the turkey is tender . |
| 9 | Transfer to a large frying pan with a lid , bring to the boil , then cover and simmer very gently for 4 minutes , turning the fish once . |
| 10 | • If you ca n't get to sleep , do n't get up or have a meal or snack ; relax and read quietly instead . |
| 11 | The fry of all these species are slightly smaller than newly-released Mbuna fry but grow quite fast , at twelve weeks reaching a saleable size of 1–1/2″ . |
| 12 | Those were the days when you could still bang doors at Brands Hatch and drive home afterwards . |
| 13 | Vertigo from looking downward , therefore they sit and look straight ahead . |
| 14 | Most insect muscles are phasically responsive ( i.e. they contract and relax relatively quickly ) but some skeletal and all visceral muscles undergo sustained tonic contractions . |
| 15 | The Fus — grandma , young parents and two small children — eat and dress well enough . |
| 16 | As for the Gascons , they are gossipy , licentious , and poorly dressed ; although they eat and drink far too much they do n't sit at table but squat around a fire ; they all share the same cup and when they go to sleep they all share the same rotting straw , master and mistress , servants and all . |
| 17 | Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game . |
| 18 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 19 | Few cars ride and handle so well , even fewer offer such good value for money . |
| 20 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes I think I give and care too much . |
| 22 | Laterally , that is across the grain , they separate or crush quite easily , so that the lateral tensile and compressive strengths are very low , only a few hundred pounds per square inch . |
| 23 | Worried people do not concentrate , hear or understand so well as usual . |
| 24 | ‘ Ask ’ sounds lovely in the kinda-folk , kinda-high-life manner we know and love so well and that 's enough for me . ’ |
| 25 | Now , if we take a look at Council , this Authority that we all know and love so dearly . |
| 26 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 27 | They picnic and bathe either lightly clothed or naked , completely absorbed in their own company and activities . |
| 28 | There are just two comfortable and well-appointed apartments available at the Residence Elena and outside the building there are plenty of sitting areas — all around and under the mulberry trees where chicken and ducks cluck and quack away contentedly . |
| 29 | They still have a problem in managing the demands of Bob 's mother , but this is now a shared problem which they discuss and handle together rather than a seat of battle for the two women with Bob torn between them . |
| 30 | He deliberately used both brush and pen as boldly as possible to soften the mechanical nature of the process . |