Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 2 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 3 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 4 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 5 | Of course , the poor individual buyer is the one who loses out in this sort of operation . |
| 6 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 7 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 8 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone who gets off on slapping people around , ’ SHe 'd answered carelessly . |
| 11 | He succeeds Meuric Rees , the Lord Lieutant of Gwynedd , of Tywyn , who steps down after 12 years as a panel member , the last six as chairman . |
| 12 | A business general manager who moves up to corporate responsibilities can quickly lose touch with his or her former industry . |
| 13 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 14 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 15 | Jilted Griffin , who faces up to three years in jail , was arrested after tracking Lynn Oddo to a flat in California . |
| 16 | Eh , I do n't know who comes up with these ideas , I do n't honest . |
| 17 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 18 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 19 | The project in question was Adam Adamant Lives , a less fantastic , if still fantasy-based , series about another time-traveller who comes out of suspended animation from 1902 into the ‘ Swinging London ’ world of 1965 . |