Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anyone who goes out to work or has to leave home early during the week the garden is a weekends-only pleasure for almost half of the year . |
| 2 | It is not hard to see why official inquiries concerning matters like spies or telephone tapping very rarely tell the truth . |
| 3 | The Soane Mausoleum in St Pancras Gardens , London was designed by Sir John Soane in 1815–16 and is one of five monuments by that great eccentric of British neo-Classical and Romantic architecture , Sir John Soane , which the Soane Monuments Trust has restored or plans to restore as soon as possible . |
| 4 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 5 | So you say ‘ Well , we guessed wrong , ’ or decide to try again tomorrow . |
| 6 | When the dolphin school eventually stops , too confused or exhausted to swim any further , the purse seiner steams up and sets its net around both dolphins and tuna , and then pulls the bottom closed , just like a drawstring purse . |
| 7 | Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it . |
| 8 | Anomalously , proposals for Private Member 's bills are emanating increasingly from governments ; a government wishes to see a particular measure enacted but either wishes not to devote government time to it , or wishes to avoid too close an association with its controversial subject-matter , or both . |
| 9 | When applied to forecasts of present population it can reveal interesting possible futures or help to confirm more precisely suppositions already made . |
| 10 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 11 | Naturally the best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 12 | The best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 13 | Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 15 | And got blown away right . |
| 16 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 17 | Helen Brotherton moved to Dorset after the end of the Second World War and has lived there ever since . |
| 18 | For comparison , in Britain , at the end of the 1970s , the gap between rich and poor was considerably wider than that in Hungary or Poland , and has widened further since . |
| 19 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 20 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 21 | While that movement has nowhere been wholly completed and has gone less far in some countries than in others , there is no western nation where its effects can not be seen . |
| 22 | Mr. Wilson : We know that the Hon. Gentleman is advising both companies — he informed us of that in Committee and has said so again tonight — but is it correct that he is backing Strathtay for his own area ? |
| 23 | Genscher has referred to Germany 's ‘ mission ’ to foster peace in Europe and has said very frankly that , ‘ We Germans can be the architects of a united and indivisible Europe ’ . |
| 24 | And he grows hellebores Christmas Roses to the uninitiated — and has done so professionally since retiring from his job as a mathematics lecturer at Manchester University at the age of 50 , 18 months ago . |
| 25 | He was elected to Middlesbrough Council in 1983 to represent Hemlington and has done so ever since . |
| 26 | The child has initially been asked to compare the number of cars on the two shelves , and has done so correctly . |
| 27 | It was conceived to grace the largest lobby in the United States ( in a Houston bank ) and has remained there ever since . |
| 28 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 30 | Their presence in London first developed following the relaxation of exchange control in 1958 and has grown rapidly since . |