Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 2 | Raw stuff in 1964 , nearly 30 years on Entertaining Mr Sloane still packs a punch , Joe Orton 's target being the humbug and hypocrisy of suburban life , writes Christopher Grier . |
| 3 | In their last fixture before Henley at Marlow Regatta , St Edwards took on another Oxfordshire school Radley College , and were shocked to loose by just a few feet . |
| 4 | It was established by a motion carried on 12 December 1948 . |
| 5 | The Second Reading was carried on 12 March 1956 by 286 votes to 262 , a majority of twenty four , and passed through all its remaining stages in the Commons , before being heavily defeated once more in the Lords . |
| 6 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 7 | The Canadians ' ship then took 2,000 local Russian miners and their families to Archangel , returning nine days later on 2 September to take off the men of the Edmonton Regiment and Saskatoon Light Infantry who , with sappers and some Norwegians , had destroyed the mines . |
| 8 | Five months later on 2 October 1792 , 14 men , mostly village pastors gathered in the back parlour of widow Wallis ' house in Kettering and resolved to form ’ the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Lost ’ . |
| 9 | It will now take place one week later on 2 June 1993 at 5.00 p.m. for 5.15 p.m. in Our Lady of Good Counsel Presbytery , 6 Broompark Circus ( see map ) . |
| 10 | National Grid , a company jointly owned by the 12 regional electricity companies of England and Wales , was granted a licence to take on British Telecom and Mercury . |
| 11 | The reasoning , however , is that problem determination is not a ‘ core competency ’ and so IBM is happy to relinquish its responsibility and concentrate on further CICS development . |
| 12 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 13 | The Pinzgauer was able to drive up 600m of hillside and bring down 27-year-old John Richards . |
| 14 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 15 | 45759 : Poor woodwind intonation at the opening and some skewwhiff synchronization later on let down this Beethoven First Symphony . |
| 16 | Is there nobody round here listening that can erm that could bring in some Beaujolais Nouv no no little Off Licence that will do this free publicity on the B B C to come in a say , Look I 'm an odd bin or something like that ? |
| 17 | If anyone would like to come along some Thursday evening and share something with us we would be delighted to hear from you . |
| 18 | IBM Corp 's Technology Products unit — IBMspeak for the chip business — has finally nailed down some US distributors for the chips , subsystems and packaging products it wants to offer on the merchant market : the national distributors are Bell Industries Inc , Los Angeles , Bell Microproducts Inc , San Jose and Marshall Industries Inc , El Monte , California ; regional manufacturer 's representatives appointed include Bonser-Philhower Sales of Richardson , Texas , for Texas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and Arkansas ; S J Associates of Rockville Centre , New York for the Mid-Atlantic , Metro and Upstate New York regions , Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania ; Nexus of Mountain View , for Northern California ; Centaur Corp of Irvine for Southern California ; and Mill-Bern Associates of Woburn , Massachusetts for the states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Maine . |
| 19 | the wrong , the wrong side of the road , of course you 've got the blind bend , somebody had gone round there , somebody else was coming down old Whitton Road legally |
| 20 | ‘ Randy 's a major collector of guitars ; he and Brian dedicate most of their spare time to tracking down old Gretsches all over the country . |
| 21 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
| 22 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |
| 23 | It could help to tie down east-central Europe 's old western bugbear , Germany . |
| 24 | Continue along Petite Rue au Beurre , turn right up Rue du Marché aux Herbes and left down Petite Rue des Bouchers . |
| 25 | Besotted Bill spent £50,000 hiring private detectives to track down 67-year-old Anne after she left their Channel Islands home in Guernsey in 1990 . |
| 26 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 27 | The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're wasting our time and yours when you should be hunting down those IRA swine . ’ |
| 29 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 30 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |