Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 2 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 3 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 4 | Such an amendment would permit claims where the employee 's invention falls short of revolutionising the employer 's position but nonetheless contributes greatly to the latter 's economic well-being . |
| 5 | because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together |
| 6 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 7 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 8 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 9 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 10 | Those who must let them enter do not like the work , for they fear what sidles in at the same time — the jealousies , the old rows and the suspicion of old fraud . |
| 11 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 12 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 13 | We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming . |
| 14 | It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection , therefore , that numerous examples can be found in real nature , in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged , from very different starting points , on what looks very like the same endpoint . |
| 15 | For them to taketh away with the same greedy hand is no longer tolerable . |
| 16 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 17 | This restriction of the kernel function K1 is discussed by Volterra ( 1931 ) and shown to be a requirement of the theory of hereditary phenomena , when the phenomenon always follows the same course as it passes successively through the same conditions , whatever may be the relative position of these conditions in time . |
| 18 | De Beauvoir 's adopted daughter Sylvie le Bon also features largely in the latter chapters , and their friendship is portrayed as mutually supportive and stimulating — notably different from de Beauvoir 's previous relationships with women . |
| 19 | Brian sits reflectively for a few moments … |
| 20 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 21 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 22 | Arranged them by pushing the ‘ record ’ and ‘ play ’ buttons down at the same time . |
| 23 | Nature and God are identified , and are conceived as an infinite reality which exists both as an all comprehensive mind and as an infinitely extended physical system , and in other ways unknown to us , all these being different aspects of one and the same single reality . |
| 24 | Because it nests repeatedly in the same tree a considerable litter of skulls and bones accumulates beneath its nest . |
| 25 | Nightlife revolves traditionally around the many tavernas , but several late bars and a couple of discos compete for your later custom . |
| 26 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 27 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 28 | Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands . |
| 29 | Since the condition for rationality contained in restriction ( 7.3 ) rules out any systematic relation between v t , the prediction error , and lagged values of v t , it rules out by the same token any persistent deviation of y t from y * ; . |
| 30 | There is no problem with amplifying a speaker 's voice because in a room of any size you do not hear the individual 's voice as such and the electronic sound reaches everywhere at the same time . |