Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 2 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 4 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 5 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 6 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 7 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 8 | Thus , " in shells of N.lapillus var. imbricata the external sculpturing consists of a series of lamellar corrugations laid down in a fairly regular sequence parallel to the growing edge of the shell which , where they overlap the spiral ridges , are raised to form thin vaulted scales " ( Largen , 1971 ) . |
| 9 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 10 | Mix well , then bind together with a little beaten egg . |
| 11 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 12 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 13 | Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment . |
| 14 | Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself . |
| 15 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 16 | Stronger subject and technical background and training are important for these new information staff , as well as the ability to work effectively in a more fluid organisational environment . |
| 17 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 18 | I am going to vote against the motion , I 'm disappointed with the liberal group not come in with a more constructive amendment or even a proposal , as I would say asked you to do . |
| 19 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
| 20 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 21 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |
| 22 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 23 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 24 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 25 | Jump into a cold swimming-pool , for example , and who can blame your frozen phallus from shrinking away to a delightfully compact inch or so . |
| 26 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 27 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 28 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 29 | Walking away from a potentially ugly situation is not failure . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |