Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 4 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 6 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 7 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 8 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 9 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 10 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 11 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 12 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 13 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 14 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 15 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 16 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 17 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 18 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 19 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 20 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 21 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 22 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 23 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 24 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 25 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 26 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 27 | C.Z. style : Mrs Guest ( main picture ) dresses down for a dressed up evening in Adolfo 's chocolate chenille cardigan jacket and sequin striped T-shirt , with cut velvet georgette skirts and splendid pearls . |
| 28 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 29 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 30 | Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad . |