Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , if you ask me , there 's as much goes on in most of these valleys as there ever used to be . ’ |
| 2 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 3 | What if he goes on like this for ever ? |
| 4 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 5 | Total income is slightly reduced , however , since tweed production goes down to 2 per week ( £4,368 ) . |
| 6 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 7 | Rozario on the near post Chettle also has come forward for this kick and it goes in towards that near post area where Oldfield takes no chances . |
| 8 | Gabby died in 1980 , but the spirit of his music lives on through three of his sons , Cyril , Bla and Martin . |
| 9 | The most renowned of the family was Reginald who won international fame as a collector of rare and exotic plants from the countries of the Far East and whose name lives on in several of his discoveries . |
| 10 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 11 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 12 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 13 | ‘ At peak times , that adds up to millions of viewers , ’ said a survey spokesman . |
| 14 | ‘ At peak times , that adds up to millions of viewers , ’ said a survey spokesman . |
| 15 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 16 | Cilla Black as she looks back at some of the funniest moments in the success of her matchmaking series . |
| 17 | The titles of both poems suffered change , and The Ruined Cottage is to be found incorporated in the first Book of The Excursion , where Wordsworth looks back from 1814 to the year 1795 : |
| 18 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 19 | One incident stands out in particular as a point when I felt there was little more I could do : |
| 20 | She stops , too upset to carry on , and sneaks back into one of the ground-floor apartments to wash and put on her pyjamas for bed . |
| 21 | Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states . |
| 22 | Bourner and Hamed ( 1987 ) in their study of CNM graduates have reported that degree performance improves with age until students reach the age of about 40 and then declines back towards that of younger students . |
| 23 | The World Bank reckons that on most measures of welfare it ranks down with much of sub-Saharan Africa , and only a bit above Haiti . |
| 24 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 25 | The TSB 's new Family Bonus plan allows up to eight in a family to pool their nest eggs and so qualify for higher rates of interest . |
| 26 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 27 | They 're topping the bill in the Central Match Live which kicks off at ten to three . |
| 28 | It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas . |
| 29 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 30 | It shows up on one of the pictures — and I think that 's the only bit of pain he got from that . ’ |