Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these arguments , from people involved in different ways in the study of language , have weight , and should not be ridiculed or dismissed out of hand , as has become rather fashionable in some language teaching circles . |
| 2 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 3 | They must be used to that , or got out of practice . |
| 4 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 5 | During the first few weeks , check that they have n't been lifted by frost or pecked out by birds . |
| 6 | When we shop or eat out in cafés , college canteens or restaurants , we tend to select food for appeal and taste , not nutrient value . |
| 7 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 8 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 9 | They argue new laws are needed as modern technology has made a mockery of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act with violent pornography easily ordered by telephone or beamed in by satellite , making enforcement of the law almost impossible . |
| 10 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 11 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |
| 12 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 13 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 14 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 15 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 16 | Fulfil consumables requests or report back to users CSO |
| 17 | Without the spring trimming there would be no pressure required to change speeds or to pull out of dives , and the controls would be very light indeed . |
| 18 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 19 | But if Russia falls into anarchy or lurches back into despotism the price that we pay could be frightening . ’ |
| 20 | A number of young men mentioned going off on their bikes to get away from it all , and amongst older adolescents driving around or driving out of town and parking to view the scenery were popular ‘ escape ’ mechanisms . |
| 21 | … freedom of speech , and debates on proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . |
| 22 | 9 of the Bill of Rights 1688 , prohibits simply the impeachment or questioning of parliamentary proceedings in ‘ any court or place out of Parliament ’ . |
| 23 | That the free dome of Speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Courte or place out of Parliament . |
| 24 | ‘ That the freedome of speech and debates or proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parlyament . |
| 25 | Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder . |
| 26 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 27 | Which do you care about more — keeping in with your friends or keeping in with Jesus ? |
| 28 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 29 | Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap . |
| 30 | How many times have you faced the glares of your fellow shoppers in supermarkets as you struggle to pack your bags with one hand and write a cheque with the other , or fumble around for cash to pay for your goods . |