Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perry sits down and unravels six tiny envelopes , cut of magazine paper , on the low coffee table . |
| 2 | Among those in the party who would like to see a more accommodating approach is Ross Harper , a prominent Glasgow lawyer and one of two main contenders for the Scottish party chairmanship , if the present incumbent Lord Sanderson stands down as expected next year . |
| 3 | He looks down and sees red fur . |
| 4 | He holds up as models some of the new information-age businesses like the American TV company CNN , with a tiny core staff , entrepreneurial approach and day-to-day responsiveness to the market . |
| 5 | He looks around and stops smiling . |
| 6 | The stated aims of the organisation continue to be those originally associated with the NFoL , namely : ‘ the advancement and propagation of the Christian Gospel in particular as it bears on or affects national or individual morality and ethics ’ . |
| 7 | Where a solicitor by himself or herself or with any other person without breach of paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule operates , actively participates in or controls any business , other than a solicitor 's practice or a multi-national partnership , which offers any service which may properly be offered as part of a solicitor 's practice , the solicitor shall ensure ? |
| 8 | Ca n't you just hear the children 's playful squabbles at the rabbit hutches over whether to have that fluffy grey one as a pet , or as a casserole ? |
| 9 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 10 | They could be conventionally square or round or in the shape of long slits so that the adjoining room shows through and gives extra perspective . |
| 11 | Willie reaches out and takes two for himself . |
| 12 | I work in a Programme called SPRED — Special Religious Education — which reaches out and welcomes handicapped children and adults into the life of the parish community . |
| 13 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 14 | A piece of one chromosome breaks off and joins another chromosome . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not every day that a man gets up and finds one of the most gorgeous creatures in the western hemisphere spooning in the cornflakes at the breakfast table , ’ said Leo . |
| 16 | Every morning , Monday to Friday , my mother gets up and makes sure she is ready for work . |
| 17 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 18 | So she goes out and gets some stuff right ? |
| 19 | The marketing team goes out and finds 20 odd systems on which to sell it . |
| 20 | The marketing team goes out and finds 20 odd platforms to sell on to . |
| 21 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 22 | It also points out that creating this reserve by deducting 1 per cent quota from existing producers will be difficult , not to say impossible , for crofters with small numbers of cattle or sheep . |
| 23 | Our Jeff goes around and says any more nominations |
| 24 | It 's the experience of their lives and their lifetime and what they 've done , how they 've managed their lives , that shines through and becomes beautiful . |
| 25 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 26 | In The Alexandria Quartet ( 1957 — 60 ) , for example , Lawrence Durrell 's narrator Darley sets up and discusses aesthetic paradoxes , including ones affecting the text in which he figures , quite often enough to justify Durrell 's view that , as a whole , ‘ the novel is only half secretly about art , the great subject of modern artists ’ ( in Cowley 1963 : 231 ) . |
| 27 | The widespread relationships between partners and contractors ensures knowledge moves around and becomes extended and advanced . |
| 28 | A big van pulls up and they stick their stuff inside and get in , but just before they go , the man with the fog horn thing turns round and says all friendly like , ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 29 | Immediately you put in another claim , and the insurance company turns round and says hard luck mate , you 've signed away to say that was the settlement for that injury for once and all time and we wo n't accept another claim for the same injury . |
| 30 | Now we come to resolution one , which is the Annual Report , the Accounts , and the Auditors , and although Geoffrey is not here , er , we 've done a video of him , which is now about to be shown , who will introduce er this , and I just like to say , that this has been sponsor the cost of it has been sponsored by the Shell International Petroleum Company , to whom we are very grateful if my head pops up and obscures some of the shout down , will you |