Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 2 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
| 3 | she goes on about all this but they do n't say how much it 's gon na cost , never mind the storage heaters |
| 4 | his brother arrives in Boston before he , miners who want the miners families ' ranch that goes on till seven thirty |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 6 | Who knows what goes on behind those net curtains . |
| 7 | Er , what goes on behind those closed doors , even I do n't know . |
| 8 | The fact that the ad sits in between other normal commercials gives it added impact , but the trouble is it tackles the symptoms , not the cause and could feed on guilt . |
| 9 | What worries Spenser is how human action fits in with this determined overall scheme of things whose main signposts can be discerned in Scripture , but whose timetable and precise unravelling are not clear . |
| 10 | In Lawrence 's essays it goes along with that familiar stance of hard-earned adjustment whereby sickness is always someone else 's problem — the masses , the modern world , women , homosexuals , whoever . |
| 11 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 12 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 13 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 14 | And she said wait here Mr and in she goes in to this bloody meeting and out he came . |
| 15 | Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ . |
| 16 | However , Merrill Lynch is running the risk of suffering a substantial loss if the market price holds on to any substantial premium . |
| 17 | Piero Fornasetti lives on in these pure silk ties |
| 18 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 19 | All of the evidence from cognitive studies thus far indicates that human behaviour lies in between these two extremes , that is , in the category we have termed ‘ gene-culture transmission ’ of culture . |
| 20 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 21 | SPURS boss Terry Venables looks down at controversial new skipper Neil Ruddock , sent off during Saturday 's 2-2 draw against Palace . |
| 22 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 23 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 24 | It 's part of an education philosophy which I must remind erm which I must remind you starts off with local financial management of schools within the Education Service erm prior to local financial management County Hall was big brother . |
| 25 | The material is used in a ‘ montage-style , which … juxtaposes and cements ruins and fragments up against one another ’ ; as examples he cites Mahler and 1920s We ill . |
| 26 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 27 | It seems to be the case as she currently has up to 200 various groups and organisations on her books . |
| 28 | Selahattin Simsek is currently being held in Bursa Special Type Prison and has up to eight more years of his sentence to serve . |
| 29 | The retina of the octopus has up to 20 million light receptors , while the eyes of a giant squid are huge , measuring an incredible 40 centimetres across , and may be equipped with over 1000 million light detectors — nearly 100 times more than our own eyes . |
| 30 | To explain it better I should have done what adds up to thirty six then up to three hundred and sixty should n't I ? |