Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I 've already said , being a few seconds late will not be a severe disadvantage , but being early or being forced down the line will stop you from tacking when you want to . |
| 2 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 3 | ‘ We have sent those guidelines to the other two trusts and are setting up a work party involving all three trusts to improve the way we deal with those cases and improve communications . ’ |
| 4 | They have a combined income of £22,000 and are paying off a £42,000 mortgage on their Baker Avenue home . |
| 5 | The researchers are trying out different X-ray sources , including laboratory non-destructive testing rigs and a truck-mounted X-ray unit , and are working out the doses required . |
| 6 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 7 | Present day ‘ time travellers ’ step into a specially designed car and are taken on an exciting trip through more than 1,000 years of Carrickfergus history . |
| 8 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 9 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 10 | The trio scored 6/6 between them in rounds seven and eight and are carving up the rest of the field , none of whom has more than 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Meet Moonshake , one of the blessed few remaining non-conformist independent groups , at Aldgate and be taken on a guided tour of the Ripper 's murder-sites . |
| 12 | The highlight of the event will be tomorrow , when they will get the chance to drive their cars around the original test-track and be taken on a tour of the factory . |
| 13 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 14 | I accidentally spilt some soft drink on the bench where we had lunch , and in a minute a dozen skinks had homed in and were lapping up the liquid . |
| 15 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 16 | Mrs Crumwallis and Mrs Garfitt had run from the serving table and were standing over a boy . |
| 17 | At the height of the violence in the early hours of the morning at Wymott jail in Leyland , Lancashire , about 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail . |
| 18 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 19 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 20 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 21 | He 's finalising the documentation for a private bid , and is putting up the cash himself … |
| 22 | The newly opted-out hospital trust is trying to close Casualty and is running down the wards of the Mile End branch of the Royal London Hospital , which has been serving the East End well since 1858 . |
| 23 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
| 24 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 25 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 26 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 27 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 28 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 29 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 30 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |