It forms verbal phrases that are then used as nouns: Lying in bed is my favorite hobby.

Mr. Anderson is plain, natural, frank, and he responds with spontaneity to the shape and sense of a verbal phrase.

There seem to be three verbal phrases here, which add to something like Sorry, I must go soon.

But if a sentence containing an atelic verbal phrase is embedded within the context of a past time narrative, it would be interpreted as past.

It is derived from a finite verbal phrase, the verbal inflection still visible at the juncture of the compound members.

The songs stick to certain trademarks: short melody lines and verbal phrases, big beat, active guitar.

Physical and verbal phrases repeat, but they are never quite the same.

It is often used to test the constituency of a verbal phrase but can also be applied to other phrases:

It's: a contraction of the verbal phrase It is or It has.

By an inversion you emphasize a component of the sentence: an adverbial phrase, a predicative or an object, or even an inner verbal phrase.