Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 32 | My minute will be burnt , or composted , or trodden down into mulch , into humus , into peat , into soft coal , into hard . |
| 33 | As soon as machines landed , pilots ' written reports were sent by dispatch rider or telephoned through to GHQ . |
| 34 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 35 | In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight . |
| 36 | Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself . |
| 37 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 38 | There were others in the period before each privatization when financial losses were being reduced or written off as part of a continuing process of rationalizing older , basic industries . |
| 39 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 40 | Now I have a salaried job instead of running the home I have no time to do the shopping , take the car to the garage or wait in for service engineers of various sorts . |
| 41 | Each house has a sophisticated meter attached to its TV set , which records exactly what is being played ( or played back on video ) . |
| 42 | ‘ What has always impressed me deeply … is the blind despotism of fate … the terrible , indifferent Fate , this tyrant Chance , slays or spares , mutilates or rewards , annihilates or passes by without herd , without thought , with absolute blankness of purpose , aim or passion . ’ |
| 43 | He was always getting up to wander down the aisles , interfering with the card school or listening in to people 's personal stereos . |
| 44 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 45 | Become adaptable , so that you can come to the point quickly or ease in to conversation through some social chit-chat , as appropriate . |
| 46 | But soon they too would be absorbed by the world of the camp , know their way about it in their sleep , do the washing-up and water-carrying once a week , or walk about like negroes in G-strings made out of a towel . |
| 47 | New Zealand lambs and dairy cows grow fat the old-fashioned way , by grazing in sunny meadows , not by munching bags of feed full of additives or wandering about on pastures drenched in chemical fertilisers , as their European and American cousins do . |
| 48 | Date or Issue out of sequence . |
| 49 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 50 | Slower-acting than most artificials , it is best hoed or dug in during winter , some months ahead of renewed springtime growth and activity . |
| 51 | Ground impact marks , sometimes a considerable distance from the main wreckage , should not be trampled upon or run over by rescue vehicles . |
| 52 | His characters do not travel by flying carpet or converse with wild animals or meet up with angels and demons , in the manner of other contemporary fictional heroes and heroines . |
| 53 | This means a punter can follow the price movements himself , or obtain up to date prices from his stockbroker . |
| 54 | But Ludens was not concerned now with writing his ‘ next book ’ , or rushing off to Rome or Paris to read in libraries . |
| 55 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 56 | Good tactics , whether planned or not — the more gentry were pinned down here , the fewer were left to muster the Volunteers or ride off with news to the Deputies at Blairgowrie . |
| 57 | But let's look first at the visible problems , realising the need for fun , not for a fruitless day 's digging or waiting around for ferrets that are none too likely to return to the surface once allowed underground . |
| 58 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 59 | or going down into Ipswich with your mum and coming up with grandpa . |
| 60 | ‘ My hobbies include knitting , reading nursing material , the newspapers and Stephen King novels , writing letters , badminton , walking , driving , pop music , Tamla Motown music , bowling , gardening , visiting the pub or going out for meals . |