Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |
| 32 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 33 | ‘ People will slowly discover they can put down a five per cent deposit on a house without losing it in six months , ’ he said . |
| 34 | The path marked by a ball rolling down a corrugated graph paper would reveal a gap when the paper is later flattened . |
| 35 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 36 | It brought to his notice the heap of auburn hair and , taking his time , he let his eyes stroll down a pinched but puckish face , breasts which looked firm though on the small side and the rest , as he would guess , in regular working order . |
| 37 | They were cruel , dark , pupiless eyes , like looking down a bottomless pit . |
| 38 | The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . |
| 39 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 40 | Farnham played this entertaining friendly with only ten men , and they had to work hard to break down a useful Wokingham side . |
| 41 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 42 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
| 43 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 44 | If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation ? |
| 45 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 46 | The court in the Reference did not lay down a closed list : the public interest was the governing consideration . |
| 47 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 48 | Barnsley opened a 9–0 lead before Acklam 's number eight Stuart Dredge touched down a push-over try . |
| 49 | Barnsley opened a 9–0 lead before Acklam 's number eight Stuart Dredge touched down a push-over try . |
| 50 | Er France interv intervened in Spain initially to put down a liberal revolt . |
| 51 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
| 52 | Wood , 24 , has played in 27 first-class matches and scored 960 runs without ever being able to hold down a regular spot . |
| 53 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 54 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 55 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 56 | They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water . |
| 57 | The Cranny River tumbles down a small glen of its own , not counted among the famous Nine . |
| 58 | He hoisted up a plank to sit on and then let down a small rope . |
| 59 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 60 | Lucca 's , across the lorry-ridden road and down a small sour-smelling alley , was as small as the shop from which Fosdyke had led them . |