Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 2 | ( rather a lot of which goes on inside an internal combustion engine . ) |
| 3 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
| 4 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 5 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 6 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 7 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 8 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 9 | The event tees off with an 18-hole game , followed in the afternoon by an 18-hole medal competition for the Campbell Dawson Trophy . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it all adds up to an impressive document . ’ |
| 11 | It all adds up to an awesome task , but , come what may , the ‘ Buns ’ are determined to enjoy themselves and , in the words of secretary Allen Morris , ‘ savour the moment . ’ |
| 12 | All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum . |
| 13 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 14 | It all adds up to an exotic holiday of pure Turkish Delight . |
| 15 | Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations . |
| 16 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 17 | If instead of point charges we have a distributed space charge p ( x' , y' , z' ) then the sum in eqn ( 2.23 ) goes over into an integral : |
| 18 | Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar . |
| 19 | So if your mains goes off through an electrical storm or something |
| 20 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 21 | This means that the already very sleek 1 inch thickness on the top edge slims down to an amazing ″ at its thinnest point . |
| 22 | Myself ’ trips off into an extended Twin Peaks -ish slither of pacifying , blissful techno-tasting house . |
| 23 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 24 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 25 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 26 | But if the exchange is unequal , one chromosome ends up with an extra copy of the segment and the other without the particular segment . |
| 27 | ‘ This means the muscles go flat instead of round and the butcher ends up with an inferior eye muscle . |
| 28 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
| 29 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 30 | Iron shortage shows out as an overall pale colouring in the leaves . |