Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer . |
| 2 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’ |
| 4 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 5 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 6 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 7 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 8 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 9 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 10 | Let's r log on to the A drive first presumably ? |
| 11 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |
| 12 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |
| 13 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 14 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 15 | Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities . |
| 16 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 17 | Sensed somewhere below the thinking mind , somehow older and wiser than consciousness , there is … |
| 18 | A modern hotel situated right in the city centre and only 300 metres walk from the railway station . |
| 19 | the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area . |
| 20 | They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas . |
| 21 | Sub-set variable is listed numerically after the base part , with cross-reference to the parent assembly/s . |
| 22 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 23 | The cause is a faulty ( or nonexistent ) thermostat not allowing hot water to circulate properly through the inlet manifold . |
| 24 | They suffer badly from the leaf menace . |
| 25 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 26 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 27 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 28 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 29 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 30 | with primer on , spraying inside and the outside , taking off both the wings and bump bit where the bonnet goes on to the slam pan , got ta take the er the wings out , I mean the , the lights out anyway . |