Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The need for qualified nursing , as opposed to help with housework or companionship , will arise only in the most extreme cases of severe disability ( see Connolly v Camden and Islington AHA [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 250 ; Croke v Wiseman [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 852 ) . |
| 12 | South Africa demonstrably adjusted better to the more disciplined requirements of the longer game after almost two months of the uninterrupted frenzy of the World Cup . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 15 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 16 | Mix well , then bind together with a little beaten egg . |
| 17 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Guests eat together around an elegantly decorated table and the atmosphere is very much that of a dinner party between friends . |
| 20 | Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded . |
| 21 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 22 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 23 | Judith Bailey 's firm , clear beat led perhaps to an unduly deliberate tempo and heaviness of phrasing in the first movement of Beethoven 's Emperor Concerto and narrowly missed coinciding with the soloist at a few important junctions . |
| 24 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 25 | Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment . |
| 26 | Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 29 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 30 | 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 . |