Sentence examples for the verb phrase from inspiring English sources

Since 1942, the verb phrase screw up has meant only "bungle, botch, mishandle".

Indeed, it's a good habit to at least consider moving an adverb to the end of the verb phrase.

He also defends things that drive wordies crazy, like the adjective "fun" and the verb phrase "try and".

In normal word order the inflected verb immediately follows the subject; any remaining part of the verb phrase occurs as close to the inflected verb as possible.

If the verb phrase in the sentence had been "objects to" instead of "is outraged by," the software would have recognized that the sentiment of the Union of Consumers of Georgia toward AES was negative, but less so.

"It analyzes sentences to find the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the subject, the object, and it will do a comparison across them to find out how much of it is similar," Professor McKeown said.

True, the traditional "eat/have" ordering is the only reasonable one if you take the conjunction "and" joining the verb phrases to imply a chronological sequence of events — you can't eat cake and then still expect to maintain possession over it (except in digested form).

Despite what Mrs. Kaczynski and other sticklers say, it's possible to make sense of "you can't have your cake and eat it too". True, the traditional "eat/have" ordering is the only reasonable one if you take the conjunction "and" joining the verb phrases to imply a chronological sequence of events — you can't eat cake and then still expect to maintain possession over it (except in digested form).

The syntactical patterns preserve the word order that has been used in the CO3 extraction method, but as additional feature better specifies the verb phrases that are accepted for the extraction of PPIs, and thus generates higher precision results.

The latter parameter was defined as the number of occurrences, on http://www.google.co.uk, of the critical verb phrase of the sentences (e.g., "grasped the idea"; 53 917 ± 12 571 for idioms vs. 37 892 ± 13 856 for literal sentences, P > 0.05).

The manner interpretation is available when the stative "verb phrase" is an adjective used to describe "the manner in which the event described by the first clause of the complex stative construction occurs" (Li and Thompson 1981: 623).