Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly give them , yeah and I said Joan will tell you not only does her but the table that he sits on and the wall around it , |
| 2 | Time marches on and the tension rises . |
| 3 | As the pattern of industrial life goes on and the health of the nation enables people to live longer , the number of retired people will increase and new , attractive facilities will have to be made for them in Britain , or they will be lured away to live on the continent of Europe and spend their money there . |
| 4 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 5 | A car slows down and the driver leans out of the window — ‘ Hey , are you Me Phi Me ? |
| 6 | Sometimes a car slows down and the inhabitants wave and shout what they believe to be a significant phrase . |
| 7 | This was because the circulation of capital slows down and the process of exploiting labour power is hindered . |
| 8 | This rate of loss tends to slow down as weight goes down and the metabolism adjusts , to some degree , to dieting . |
| 9 | Due to a now-realized continuity error , the blue sky turns to red , the sun goes down and the saucer flies on through the night . |
| 10 | The first place most people might take it is a Caribbean island where the sun never goes down and the rum prices never go up . |
| 11 | If the ship goes down or the basket gets broken , that 's what happens . |
| 12 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 13 | They have the Fair in a great field where the sun beats down and the people look at me , and they see me very clearly , and they look away , and some of the children laugh and some of them cry , but they are all afraid . |
| 14 | Nathan , anxious for a closer look , goes over and the animals go mad . |
| 15 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 16 | There was two bunches of keys both the same as each other with the house keys on and the keys to this place . |
| 17 | On reaching the city centre the generator goes off and the bus runs on in virtual silence . |
| 18 | Once a breach is made in the fabric of the roof — when thatch rots or slates or tiles slip — rain gets in and the processes of decay accelerate until the roof collapses . |
| 19 | When she tried to imagine herself working in an office or a bank , her mind soon went blank , like a cinema screen when the projector breaks down or the film snaps . |
| 20 | Freud describes schizophrenia as a narcissistic disorder in which the capacity for reality-testing breaks down and the patient hallucinates frequently . |
| 21 | It is not easy to find enough foster parents to care for very difficult children ; all too often fostering breaks down and the child has to be returned again to the reception centre . |
| 22 | When the first person returns , the second takes over and the game continues until each person has had a turn . |
| 23 | This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen . |
| 24 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 25 | The bit where the rest of the family goes out and the cat is after Stuart bores Babur : he thinks it is probably directed at the younger reader . |
| 26 | Since the WD curve shifts down and the MD curve shifts up , equilibrium M falls . |
| 27 | It drives around and the air that comes out of its exhaust is actually cleaner than when it comes in . |
| 28 | The flap lets down and the floor extends , leaving the five car bays under the main building . |
| 29 | As it settles down and the chances of ever attaining the radical goals become ever more remote , members begin to shift their attention to the routine satisfactions of just ‘ being a member ’ . |
| 30 | I have to bless this tower before it falls down or the masons perish of liver-rot . ’ |